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Chebab

Name: Chebab
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Arab Emirates
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 1 Egg; 250ml Milk; 4g Dry yeast; 2 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Saffron; 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder; A pinch Salt; 20g Butter; To taste Date syrup; To taste Cream Cheese

Dessert

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fluffy yellow Emirati pancakes made from yeast batter scented with saffron and cardamom.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chebab are traditional Emirati pancakes: a yeast-leavened batter flavored with saffron and cardamom is cooked into small, puffy rounds. They're eaten at breakfast or tea time with date syrup, honey, or soft cream cheese. An easy homemade treat, they're a classic Emirati sweet.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in an Emirati home, small yellow pancakes from the griddle are stacked up alongside date syrup and Arabic coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 200g
Egg 1
Milk 250ml
Dry yeast 4g
Sugar 2 tbsp
Saffron A pinch
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
Salt A pinch
Butter 20g
Date syrup To taste
Cream Cheese To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the saffron in a little warm milk to release its color.
Combine the flour, yeast, sugar, cardamom, and salt, then add the eggs, milk, and saffron milk and mix until smooth.
Cover with plastic wrap and let rise 1 hour.
Brush a frying pan lightly with butter, pour in half a ladle of batter at a time, and cook until browned on both sides.
Serve with date syrup and cream cheese.

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