🇪🇬 Egypt
Balah el Sham
Piled in pyramids in every Cairo pastry window, balah el sham is the fried sweet Egyptian kids point at first.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Short thick fingers piped with a wide star tip, fried slowly so the ridges stay sharp, syruped and rolled in pistachio.
Ingredients
- 250 mlwater
- 80 gbutter
- 180 gflour
- 3 eggs
- 1 tspvanilla
- 400 mlcold syrup
- 40 gground pistachio
- to tasteoil for deep frying
Method
- 1
Boil the water and butter, dump in the flour, and beat over the heat into a smooth ball.
- 2
Cool slightly, then beat in the eggs one by one with the vanilla until glossy.
- 3
Pipe short ridged fingers into medium-hot oil, cutting with scissors.
- 4
Fry slowly to a deep even gold, then plunge into cold syrup.
- 5
Drain and dip the tips in pistachio.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8