🇮🇶 Iraq
Kahi & Geymar
Kahi with geymar is Baghdad's Friday breakfast: families queue at dawn for hot layered pastry doused in syrup, crowned with thick buffalo cream from the southern marshes.
🔪 Prep: 40 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
The hot-cold collision: syrup poured over crackling pastry, then a cool slab of geymar melting into the layers.
Ingredients
- 500 gflour
- 1 tspsalt
- 300 mlwarm water
- 200 gghee or clarified butter
- 300 ggeymar (thick buffalo cream)
- 200 gsugar
- 1 tspcardamom or rose water
Method
- 1
Knead a soft dough and rest it until it stretches without tearing.
- 2
Simmer sugar and water into a light syrup scented with cardamom or rose water; cool it.
- 3
Stretch each ball paper-thin, brush with ghee, and fold into layered squares.
- 4
Bake or griddle until crisp and golden through the layers.
- 5
Douse the hot pastry with syrup and crown at once with cold geymar.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4