Sannouniya (Siliqa) — Boiled Hulled Wheat with Nuts

Ingredients

• 1 cup hulled wheat
• 5 cups water for boiling the wheat
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup orange blossom water
• 1/2 cup pine nuts
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/2 cup peeled almonds
• 1 cup sweet pomegranate seeds
• For more of Nada's sweets see: Lebanese Nights (Layali Lubnan)

Method

1. Clean the wheat, wash it, then soak it in hot water for a full night
2. Drain the soaking water and place the wheat in a pressure cooker, or in a regular pot if you don’t have a pressure cooker (but it will take longer to cook)
3. Cover with water, place the pressure cooker on the heat, and when the first burst of steam escapes from the whistle reduce the heat under the pot and leave it on the heat for only half an hour
4. Meanwhile, soak the walnuts in hot water
5. Cut the almonds lengthwise
6. Drain the walnuts and chop them coarsely
7. Drain the previously soaked pine nuts
8. Cool the pressure cooker under cold running water and open it... then add sugar to the wheat and stir on the heat for only five minutes
9. Remove the pot from the heat and add orange blossom water, walnuts, almonds, pine nuts, and sweet pomegranate seeds and stir
10. Serve the sannouniya hot or cold according to preference
11. Nida Hadraj
12. For more of Nida’s delicious desserts here is the link: Lebanese Nights