Desserts
ChefDalida Zaiter
How to Make Madlouqa Dessert
Madlouqa is a special homemade dessert recipe. Its presentation and appearance speak for themselves! Madlouqa is one of the distinctive and popular Ramadan sweets. The dough is made with pistachios and semolina. Let’s take a look at all the details.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup sugar
- 1 and 1/3 cups water
- A pinch of salt
- 3/4 cup fine semolina, also called farina, or coarse semolina (coarse semolina is preferred)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons rose water or orange blossom water
- 1 cup finely ground pistachios
- 1/2 teaspoon green food coloring
- Ashta for the topping
- Qatar/syrup for serving
- This wonderful and famous dessert, part of Ramadan’s atmosphere, comes to us from a friend and cook on the site:
- And after Ramadan comes Eid!! Here is Dalida’s method for making Eid maamoul
Method
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- Put the sugar, water, and a pinch of salt on the stove and let them boil for five minutes.
- Add the butter, then the semolina in batches, stirring constantly until the mixture is uniform... if the mixture becomes thick, add just a little water and stir.
- Then add 1 cup pistachios and rose water or orange blossom water and mix to obtain a velvety-textured dough.
- Remove the dough from the heat and let it cool well.
- Spread the madlouqa dough in the serving dish, then add qashta (clotted cream) on top and garnish with any type of roasted or fried nuts as desired.
- Serve it with sugar syrup.
- And this is the method for preparing homemade qashta (clotted cream).
- Dalida Zaiter
- And after Ramadan comes Eid!! Here is Dalida’s method for preparing Eid ma'amoul.
Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalVegetarianEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Homemade Ashta
- Eid maamoul
