🇸🇾 Syria
Balah el Sham
The dish carries Damascus in its name, and Damascene shops fry it longer and leaner — crunchier fingers, lighter syrup.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Longer slender fingers with a splash of orange blossom in the dough, syrup kept light so the crunch survives.
Ingredients
- 250 mlwater
- 70 gghee
- 180 gflour
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbsporange blossom water
- 1 tbspcornstarch
- 400 mllight cold syrup
- to tasteoil for deep frying
Method
- 1
Cook a choux base from water, ghee, flour, and cornstarch; beat until it leaves the pan.
- 2
Beat in the eggs and blossom water until the dough falls in ribbons.
- 3
Pipe long ridged fingers into the oil and fry patiently until hollow and crisp.
- 4
Toss briefly in light syrup and serve while they still snap.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8