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Gers Ogaily

Name: Gers Ogaily
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Kuwait
Ingredients: 4 Egg; 150g Sugar; 150g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Baking Powder; A pinch Saffron; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 1 tbsp Rose water; 60ml Vegetable oil; 1 tbsp White Sesame Seeds

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

A fluffy cake scented with saffron and cardamom — a Kuwaiti tea-time sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gers ogaily is a traditional sponge cake of Kuwait and the Gulf, scented with saffron, cardamom, and rose water and sprinkled with sesame before baking. Though the batter is simply flour, eggs, and sugar, it's rich with spice aroma. It's served to guests with tea or Arabic coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At evening tea time in a Kuwaiti home, a round saffron-colored cake is sliced and set out with tea in small glass cups.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Egg 4
Sugar 150g
All-purpose flour 150g
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Saffron A pinch
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Rose water 1 tbsp
Vegetable oil 60ml
White Sesame Seeds 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the saffron in rose water to release its color.
Whip the eggs and sugar until pale and thick.
Add the saffron rose water, cardamom, and oil and mix.
Sift in the flour and baking powder, fold in lightly, and pour into a pan.
Scatter with sesame and bake at 170°C for 35 minutes.

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