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How to Make Om Ali Dessert with Puff Pastry
Total time115 min
Prep55 min
Cook60 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyHard
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Desserts

ChefFatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

How to Make Om Ali Dessert with Puff Pastry

Om Ali is one of the most famous and delicious Egyptian desserts... Here we bring you an easy Om Ali recipe with puff pastry, but in the Lebanese style! So we invite Egyptian women to send us their recipes :) and we’ll see whether there’s anything easier than our recipe :)!! Enjoy

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Ingredients

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  • 10 sheets puff pastry
  • 3 cups milk
  • 1 cup sugar
  • a pinch of vanilla
  • a pinch of cinnamon
  • 2 containers clotted cream or cream
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • Nuts
  • 1/4 cup walnuts
  • 1/4 cup almonds
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1 1/2 cups shredded coconut

Method

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  1. Toast the puff pastry sheets in the oven.
  2. Meanwhile, put the milk with a pinch of cinnamon, vanilla, and sugar in a saucepan over the heat until just heated.
  3. Break the puff pastry sheets into a glass oven dish or Pyrex, sprinkle with the nuts and desiccated coconut, and mix.
  4. Pour the hot milk mixture over the puff pastry, then top with condensed milk and ashta, then put the Pyrex in the oven until the top browns.
  5. Serve the Om Ali with puff pastry immediately while hot.

Recipe tags

DessertsEgyptianVegetarianGluten freeEgg freeHardLong cook

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Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

If you see a recipe written as poetry, it’s surely Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch—known as Umm Badr—who posted it. Between mawawil and rhymed prose, her rice dishes arrive effortlessly and win the admiration of everyone in our group.

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