🇩🇿 Algeria
Zlabia
Algeria's zlabia of Boufarik is a legend of its own — thick honeyed batons, a recipe families guard since Ottoman days.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Boufarik-style: thick soft batons rather than lace, soaked deep in honey-syrup until they glow translucent.
Ingredients
- 350 gflour
- 50 gchickpea flour
- 1 tbspyeast
- 300 ghoney
- 300 mlsyrup
- 1 tbsporange blossom water
- to tasteoil for deep frying
Method
- 1
Ferment a thick batter of the flours, yeast, and water for several hours until it ropes.
- 2
Pipe fat batons into medium oil and fry gently until cooked through and golden.
- 3
Warm the honey with syrup and blossom water.
- 4
Soak the batons a full minute so they drink deep, then drain and serve sticky.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8