Wheat Pudding with Nuts, No Milk

Ingredients

• 1 kilo peeled wheat
• 3 cups sugar, or to taste
• Nuts such as walnuts and almonds, as desired
• Raisins
• Black seed
• Fine anise
• 2 tablespoons orange blossom water
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Method

1. Cover the cleaned, washed wheat with water and simmer it over low heat.
2. When the wheat kernels open and are fully cooked, add the sugar and let the wheat mixture boil briefly until the sugar dissolves.
3. Add the nuts, anise, nigella (black seed), and raisins, plus orange blossom water, then turn off the heat.
4. Serve the wheat pudding directly in serving cups, either hot or after it cools.
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