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Batheetha

Name: Batheetha
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Qatar
Ingredients: 200g (pitted) Dates; 120g All-purpose flour; 60g Butter; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; A pinch Saffron

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Toasted flour and dates bound with butter — a desert keeping-sweet of Qatar.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Batheetha is a traditional Gulf sweet: fragrant toasted flour is mixed with mashed dates, ghee (clarified butter), and cardamom into crumbs or bite-size pieces. Long-keeping, it was once portable food for desert journeys and pearl-diving boats. It's eaten with coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Qatari living room, a small plate of brown crumbly sweets sits beside small cups of Arabic coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Dates 200g (pitted)
All-purpose flour 120g
Butter 60g
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Saffron A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the flour in a frying pan, stirring, until fragrant and light brown.
Finely chop the dates and knead with a little hot water into a paste.
Melt the butter in another frying pan and mix in the dates, cardamom, and saffron.
Add the toasted flour and rub together with your hands into crumbs.
Squeeze into small pieces or serve as crumbs in a dish.

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