🇱🇧 Lebanon
Mahalabiya
The Levantine version leans floral: rose and orange blossom in a barely-set cream, the lightest possible end to a heavy meal.
🔪 Prep: 5 min🔥 Cook: 12 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Cornstarch-set and trembling, perfumed with rose and blossom water, pistachio only on top.
Ingredients
- 1 Lmilk
- 70 gcornstarch
- 100 gsugar
- 1 tbsprose water
- 1 tbsporange blossom water
- 40 gground pistachio
Method
- 1
Dissolve the cornstarch in cold milk, add sugar, and heat, stirring, until it coats the spoon.
- 2
Off the heat, stir in the rose and blossom waters.
- 3
Pour into shallow bowls and chill until just set — it should tremble.
- 4
Finish with a green line of pistachio.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6