🇮🇶 Iraq
Kleicha
Rolled like tiny scrolls of date paste, kleicha crosses every Iraqi table — Muslim and Christian holidays alike.
🔪 Prep: 45 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
12 people
✨ What makes it special
The pinwheel swirl: date paste with cardamom rolled inside a yeasted dough, glazed with egg yolk.
Ingredients
- 500 gflour
- 150 gghee
- 1 tspyeast
- 400 gdate paste
- 1 tspground cardamom
- 1 egg yolk (glaze)
Method
- 1
Make a supple dough from flour, ghee, yeast, and warm water; rest an hour.
- 2
Soften the date paste with cardamom and a spoon of ghee.
- 3
Roll dough thin, spread with dates, and roll into a log; slice pinwheels.
- 4
Glaze with yolk and bake at 180°C until amber.
- 5
Serve with chai — Iraqi kleicha keeps for weeks, in theory.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 12