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Mahalabiya

🇪🇬 Egypt

Mahalabiya

Egypt's nursery dessert and Ramadan staple in one: sold in glass cups from every dairy shop, thick enough to hold its spoon.

🔪 Prep: 5 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Easy

Cooking for

6 people

What makes it special

Thicker set with rice flour, vanilla-leaning, showered with toasted nuts and raisins.

Ingredients

  • 1 Lmilk
  • 80 grice flour
  • 120 gsugar
  • 1 tspvanilla
  • 60 gtoasted nuts and raisins

Method

  1. 1

    Whisk the rice flour into a cup of cold milk until lump-free.

  2. 2

    Heat the rest of the milk with sugar, then stream in the slurry, stirring until thick.

  3. 3

    Stir in the vanilla and pour into cups.

  4. 4

    Chill until set and top with nuts and raisins.

🍽 On your table

How this dish looks served for 6

On your table

How Mahalabiya is made elsewhere