🇱🇧 Lebanon
Meghli
When a baby is born in Lebanon, a pot of meghli goes on the stove and the whole neighborhood gets a bowl — and at Christmas it honors the newborn of Bethlehem.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 60 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Ground rice simmered with caraway, cinnamon, and anise until glossy brown, topped with soaked walnuts, almonds, pine nuts, and coconut.
Ingredients
- 200 gground rice
- 2 tbspground caraway
- 1 tbspcinnamon
- 1 tspground anise
- 300 gsugar
- 2 Lwater
- 150 gwalnuts, almonds, pine nuts (soaked)
- 50 gshredded coconut
Method
- 1
Whisk the ground rice, spices, and sugar into the cold water until smooth.
- 2
Bring to a boil, then simmer, stirring constantly, until thick and glossy — up to an hour of patience.
- 3
Pour into bowls and cool completely; it sets as it chills.
- 4
Blanket each bowl with coconut and the soaked nuts before serving.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8