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Khanfaroosh

Name: Khanfaroosh
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Qatar
Ingredients: 150g All-purpose flour; 50g Rice flour; 2 Egg; 60g Sugar; 3g Dry yeast; A pinch Saffron; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 1 tbsp Rose water; 80ml Milk; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Dough scented with saffron and cardamom and fried — a Qatari fried sweet for celebration days.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Khanfaroosh is a traditional fried sweet of Qatar and the UAE: rice or wheat flour dough is scented with saffron, cardamom, and rose water and fried into small flat rounds. Made for weddings and Eid mornings, it's served to guests with Arabic coffee or tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Eid morning in Qatar, small golden fried sweets are piled on a tray beside a pot of cardamom-scented Arabic coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 150g
Rice flour 50g
Egg 2
Sugar 60g
Dry yeast 3g
Saffron A pinch
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Rose water 1 tbsp
Milk 80ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the saffron in warm milk to release its color.
Mix the eggs and sugar and add the saffron milk, rose water, and cardamom.
Add the flour, rice flour, and yeast to make a thick batter and let rise 1 hour.
Drop spoonfuls into 170°C oil and spread flat.
Fry until golden on both sides.

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