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Muhallabiya

Name: Muhallabiya
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Bahrain
Ingredients: 600ml Milk; 40g Rice flour; 70g Sugar; 1 tbsp Rose water; A pinch Cardamom powder; 20g Pistachios

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Milk thickened with rice flour and scented with rose water and pistachios — milk pudding.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Muhallabiya is a milk pudding eaten across the Middle East. In Bahrain, milk is thickened with rice flour or cornstarch, scented with rose water, cardamom, or saffron, and scattered with pistachios. It's a gently sweet dessert made on Ramadan nights and for guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Ramadan night in a Bahraini home, small glass dishes of white pudding scattered with green pistachios are lined up.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Milk 600ml
Rice flour 40g
Sugar 70g
Rose water 1 tbsp
Cardamom powder A pinch
Pistachios 20g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the rice flour in 100ml of the milk.
Warm the remaining milk and sugar in a pot.
Add the rice flour mixture and cook on low for 10 minutes, stirring, until thick.
Turn off the heat, add the rose water and cardamom, and pour into dishes.
Chill to set and scatter with chopped pistachios.

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