🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Luqaimat
The first plate on the Gulf iftar table: golden dumplings zigzagged with date molasses, eaten burning-hot on toothpicks.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Saffron and cardamom in the batter, sesame in the crust, date syrup instead of plain sugar syrup.
Ingredients
- 300 gflour
- 1 tbspyogurt
- 1 tspyeast
- ½ tspground cardamom
- 1 pinchsaffron, steeped
- 200 mldate syrup
- 1 tbspsesame seeds
- to tasteoil for deep frying
Method
- 1
Whisk a loose batter of flour, yogurt, yeast, cardamom, saffron, and water; rest an hour until bubbly.
- 2
Squeeze small balls off a wet fist into hot oil.
- 3
Roll them in the oil until evenly bronze and hollow-crisp.
- 4
Pile hot, flood with date syrup, and scatter sesame.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8