🇹🇳 Tunisia
Zlabia
In Tunis, the zlabia man works two cauldrons all Ramadan — one of oil, one of syrup — and the line does not shorten until suhoor.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Amber-gold spirals from an overnight-fermented batter, crisp shell and honeycomb heart, dipped while blazing hot.
Ingredients
- 300 gflour
- 2 tbspcornstarch
- 1 tspyeast
- 1 pinchturmeric or saffron
- 500 mlcold syrup with lemon
- to tasteoil for deep frying
Method
- 1
Whisk flour, cornstarch, yeast, turmeric, and water into a pourable batter; ferment overnight.
- 2
Beat the batter down, load it into a squeeze bottle or funnel.
- 3
Pipe spirals into hot oil and fry to a deep amber crisp.
- 4
Dip hot into cold syrup, seconds only, and stack glistening.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8