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Muhallebi - Middle Eastern Milk Pudding
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Muhallebi - Middle Eastern Milk Pudding

Muhallebi is a delicate white milk pudding with a rose aroma and pistachios - a refreshing dessert popular in Levantine cooking

⏱ 25 min🍽 8 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Dissolve the cornstarch ¼ cup of the cold the milk, until no lumps remain.
    💡The starch is dissolved in cold liquid and added to the hot milk slowly, while whisking: dry starch in hot milk sets into lumps.
  2. 2
    In a pot, heat the rest of the milk with the sugar, until just before boiling.
    StovePot
  3. 3
    Pour in the cornstarch mixture in a thin stream, stirring constantly. Turn down to low and simmer 5 minutes, stirring, until the mixture is thick and smooth.
    ⚙ SimmeringStove
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  4. 4
    Remove from the heat and add the rose water and vanilla.
  5. 5
    Pour into glasses, cool at room temperature, cover and chill at least 2 hours, until the malabi sets.
    Refrigerator
  6. 6
    Sprinkle the pistachios and sugar on top.
150calories
6 gprotein
17 gcarbs
6 gfat
● protein 15%● carbs 46%● fat 39%

Per serving (144 g), of 8 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (less liquid, faster evaporation) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Wok (For quick cooking)

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