arabic pudding any ideas??

broke_mary

hi

am going round to a friends house saturday night. she's arabic and is doing lots of things for us to try. i volunteered to do pudding and would like to do something to tie in with her main course.

i haven't a clue :eek: any help gratefully recieved

thanks mary

brindles01

Why not google 'moroccan puddings'? There are some nice rice pudding recipes with an arabic twist amongst them.

*flutterby*

hmm, I thought 'arabic' was a language?

I think baklava may be a tradditional dessert and not too difficult to make...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/glossary/b.shtml?baklava

Hope it helps and how very thoughtful of you!

Little_miss_neat

You could try something like Om Ali - it is an Egyptian pudding, a sort-of version of bread and butter pudding, but using filo pastry layered with nuts and dried fruit and covered with a creamy sauce. Nigella Lawson has a great recipe in her Domestic Goddess book or you can google it - I don't know how to do a link?

zareer

Hi, FWIW I would make the following dessert to follow an arabic meal. It is a pretty simple dessert but always tasty and works especially well after a spice-heavy meal; it is 'inspired' from a Leith's recipe book I have:

Ingredients (for 4):

- Tub of greek yoghurt
- 12-14 dates
- a handful of almonds
- runny honey

Chop the dates roughly, lightly toast and break up the almonds. Then simply build the dessert - first the yoghurt, then the dates, then almonds, finally drizzle the honey all over.

wizzkid_3

This is very fillling, but interesting.

take a large pot of natural yoghurt, mix as much self raising flour into it as needed to make a stif dough, usually nearly a whole bag. Fry balls of this dough in hot oil until brown. When cooked layer on a plate in a kind of 'Ferrero Rocher' style. Meanwhile make a sugar syrup with white sugar and water (I guess this) and add enough rose water to taste 'rosy'. Then pour the rose water syrup all over the balls and serve.

We sometimes make this on a cold wet Saturday, it is aparently a kind of arab donut.

LJM

http://www.arab.net/cuisine/

found this looks interesting

Justie

the desserts tend to be milk based puddings (like rice pudding but lighter and with fragrant rose water) or pastries (like baklava) , I'll look out some recipes for you tomorrow but if you have a preference it'll narrow the search a bit

prettypennies

How about Kishk El Fuara
1 litre milk
2 tbsp corn starch
3 tbsp sugar
a dash of rosewater

Boil the milk and then add the sugar over it a stir well. Add the corn starch, which has been diluted into a small glass of water, and pour in the rosewater.
stir well and pour into small bowls and put into the fridge until really cold.

Decorate the top with ground walnuts, almonds, pistachios and coconut

or

Mango Fool

or

Rosewater and cardamom ice-cream

competitionscafe

Claudia Roden is a cook and author specialising in food from the Middle East - there are a list of recipes from her Arabesque book on the bbc food site, including some puddings:

* Leeks with egg and lemon sauce
* Orange pudding
* Milk and almond pudding
* Lentils with pasta and caramelised onions
* Aubergines in a spicy honey sauce
* Lamb shanks with egg and lemon sauce
* Yoghurt cake
* Artichoke and broad bean salad with preserved lemon
* Fishcakes
* Pan-fried red mullet with tahini sauce
* Tagine of chicken with artichoke, preserved lemons and olives
* Chicken and onion pie
* Little meat pizzas
* Couscous with spring vegetables
* Stuffed aubergines, toasted bread, tomato sauce and yoghurt

Recipes all at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_middleeasterncooking.shtml

The yoghurt cake and the milk and almond pudding both sound yummy, although they are Turkish recipes rather than 'Arabic'

nodwah

While on this topic can anyone give me any ideas what to do with date syrup that my Iraqi friend gave me?
It's really tasty stuff and lovely spread on a digestive and she normally has it poured over that sesame paste that I've forgotten the name of but there must be more you can do with it