Desserts
Wheat Grain Dessert
Wheat grain dessert is one of the tastiest traditional wheat recipes. It is prepared this way especially in northern Syria, and it resembles saniniyeh or sanoniyeh, which is often served when a child’s first tooth appears.
Total time55 min
Prep40 min
Cook15 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyMedium
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DessertsLevantVegetarianVeganDairy freeGluten freeEgg free
Recipe story
Wheat grain dessert is one of the tastiest traditional wheat recipes. It is prepared this way especially in northern Syria, and it resembles saniniyeh or sanoniyeh, which is often served when a child’s first tooth appears.
Ingredients
- 1/2 kilo peeled wheat
- 2 tablespoons aniseed
- 3 cups sugar, more or less to taste
- 1 cup peeled almonds
- 1 cup currants
- Water
- How to make wheat grain dessert the Tartous way from our friend at What Are We Cooking Today:
- Fatima Sarkis
- To read how to prepare hla al-habayeb the way people do in North Lebanon, click this link:
- How to Make Hla al-Habayeb with Wheat and Chickpeas
- To make chocolate cake with orange the What Are We Cooking Today way, click this link:
- How to Make Chocolate Orange Cake
- For the chocolate sauce recipe, click this link: How to Make Chocolate Sauce at Home
- For the cookie cake recipe, click this link: Watch the video on how to make the giant cookie cake
Method
- Place the wheat in a deep bowl, cover it with water, and leave the wheat soaked overnight
- The next day wash the wheat well and put it in a pot with plenty of water and leave it over very low heat for about 4 hours, stirring occasionally and adding water if it runs low
- Continue boiling the wheat until the grains are cooked and each kernel puffs up
- Add the anise and sugar and continue stirring the wheat
- When the wheat is fully cooked and the mixture is cohesive, add raisins and peeled almonds - quantity according to taste
- Pour the habboubieh into cups or a wide serving bowl and garnish with grated coconut, almonds, more raisins, and a light sprinkle of finely ground anise
- Wheat grain habboubieh dessert in the Tartus style from a friend of the Sho Tabkhineen Al-Youm website:
- Fatima Sarkis
- To read the method for preparing Hala al-Habayeb in the style of the people of northern Lebanon click this link:
- How to prepare Hala al-Habayeb with wheat and chickpeas
- To prepare the chocolate-orange cake in the Sho Tabkhineen Al-Youm style click this link:
- How to make the chocolate orange cake
- To get the chocolate sauce recipe click this link: How to make chocolate sauce at home
- To get the cookie cake recipe click this link: Watch the video on how to make the giant cookie cake
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Notes and serving ideas
- How to Make Hla al-Habayeb with Wheat and Chickpeas
- How to Make Chocolate Orange Cake
- How to Make Chocolate Sauce at Home
- Watch the video on how to make the giant cookie cake
