Middle Eastern Desserts To Die For
If youve got a sweet tooth that you want always to indulge
, dont hold back. Go out and try as many Middle Eastern desserts as you possibly can. Middle-Eastern cuisine, much to everyones surprise, is redolent with a large variety of gourmet desserts, which if you try once, youll never forget.
Lets take a look at some of them:
Maamoul: These are the most amazing cookies you can ever hope to eat. These sesame cookies are made with semolina, butter and flour for dough. They are baked till slightly colored and dusted with castor sugar while hot.
Iranian marzipan or pistachio balls: Flavored with rose water and marzipan, these yummy sweets are rolled in balls and in the center is placed a pistachio and then the entire sweet is dusted with castor sugar.
Brides Fingers: These amazing Moroccan pastries are absolutely sinful. Small rolls of phyllo dough are filled with almonds ground and left to float in honey syrup, and flavored with rose water.
Barazek: This is one delicious cookie thats different from Western cookies. Baked to perfection, its crisp, flat and covered with toasted sesame seeds and brushed with rose petals. They are soft, crunchy and very addictive. Eat one and youre hooked.
Qatayef: Come Ramadan and Qatayef is served right through. It is casually called the Arabic pancake. It is filled with sweet cheese and is baked, and sometimes fried. Once cooked, honey syrup is drizzled all over it and is ready to enjoy!
Qatayef with Nuts: Made the same way as Qatayef, this version comes with cheese and is filled with nuts, not cheese. Its exceptional taste is enhanced by the syrup in which it swims.
Macaroon: These sweets are made lovingly with specially kneaded dough by hand thats cooked to a rich brown color and dipped in sweet syrup.
Zulubia: Batter for this sweet is leavened with yeast and swirled imaginatively into a deep pan of hot oil and fried and dunked in sweet syrup.
Osmanlia Pistachio: A layer of pistachios nestles between two thin layers of shredded Kataifi and drenched in syrup.
Konafah with cheese: This sweet is best described as phyllo dough shredded and layered with ricotta cheese. It is known variously as Katayef and Kataif, and is also drizzled with syrup after baking. It takes only 20 minutes to be ready, so all of you with sweet teeth, be patient.
Lokma: This sweet, made out of fried Turkish sweet dough, is drenched in syrup. It is served as a dessert and goes well with coffee.
And now, to save the best for the end, heres the ever-popular Baklava.
Baklava: This is the most loved and well-known sweet of the Middle East. It has evolved over the years and is now the Baklava thats found in Turkey is said to be authentic. It is time-consuming to make, and a bit messy too, but in the end its worth the trouble. And whatsmore, you can get it too, no matter where in the world you liveeven if you live in Palo Alto. Baklava Palo Alto is very popular in the region. So, whenever youre there, order it online and enjoy!!
by: Elizabeth Banks
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