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Qatari Chebab

Name: Qatari Chebab
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Qatar
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 1 Egg; 250ml Milk; 2 tbsp Sugar; 3g Dry yeast; A pinch Saffron; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 20g Butter; 6 Dates; 3 tbsp Honey; To taste Cream Cheese

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Thick saffron and cardamom pancakes drizzled with date syrup — a Qatari breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chebab are traditional pancakes of Qatar and the Gulf: a yeast-leavened batter scented with saffron and cardamom is cooked into small, thick pancakes. They're eaten for breakfast drizzled with date syrup (dibs) or honey and served with cream cheese.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a weekend morning in a Qatari home, small thick yellow pancakes are stacked and drizzled with dark date syrup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 200g
Egg 1
Milk 250ml
Sugar 2 tbsp
Dry yeast 3g
Saffron A pinch
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Butter 20g
Dates 6
Honey 3 tbsp
Cream Cheese To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the saffron in warm milk.
Mix the flour, sugar, yeast, cardamom, eggs, and saffron milk and let rise 1 hour.
Simmer the chopped dates, honey, and 2 tbsp hot water into a syrup.
Brush a frying pan lightly with butter, pour in small rounds of batter, and cook on both sides.
Drizzle with the syrup and serve with cream cheese.

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