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Balaleet - Emirati Egg Noodles
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Balaleet - Emirati Egg Noodles

A traditional Emirati breakfast dish - sweet egg noodles spiced with cardamom and turmeric with cashews and raisins

⏱ 30 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Cooked pasta

  1. 1
    Cook the noodles in plenty of boiling salted water (4¼ cups of water and a heaping teaspoon of salt for every 4 oz of pasta), following the package directions (taste about 2 minutes early), until al dente.
    ⚙ Cooking in salted waterStovePot
    💡The water should taste like a seasoned soup, not like sea water: a heaping teaspoon of salt per liter. Add the salt once the water is boiling.
  2. 2
    Drain.
    Colander

To assemble

  1. 3
    Heat the butter in a large pan and add the cooked noodles.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  2. 4
    In a bowl, mix the eggs, milk, sugar, cardamom, turmeric and rose water.
    Bowl
  3. 5
    Pour the egg mixture over the noodles and cook over low heat, stirring gently.
    Stove
  4. 6
    Add the raisins and cook another 2–3 minutes, until the eggs set.
    Stove
  5. 7
    Transfer to a serving plate and sprinkle the cashews on top.
482calories
18 gprotein
58 gcarbs
20 gfat
● protein 15%● carbs 48%● fat 37%

Per serving (199 g), of 4 servings

For the Cooked pasta · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • 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)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (less liquid, faster evaporation) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Wok (For quick cooking)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)

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