🇪🇬 Egypt
Umm Ali
Legend ties it to a sultana's rivalry; today it ties every Egyptian winter gathering together.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 30 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Flaky pastry soaked in sweet milk under a torched cream crust with a snowfall of nuts and raisins.
Ingredients
- 400 gpuff pastry or roqaq, baked crisp
- 1 Lmilk
- 150 gsugar
- 100 gmixed nuts and raisins
- 200 mlcream
- 2 tbspcoconut flakes
Method
- 1
Break the crisp pastry into a baking dish with nuts and raisins.
- 2
Heat milk with sugar and pour over until it sighs.
- 3
Blanket with cream and coconut.
- 4
Bake under a hot grill until blistered bronze.
- 5
Serve bubbling — Umm Ali waits for no one.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8