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Easy Qatayef Recipe
Making qatayef at home is easy and very delicious. You can choose the filling that suits you, such as cheese, ashta, chocolate, walnuts, or pistachios, served with syrup.
Arabic Dessert
A very easy and tasty Arabic dessert. You can serve the Arabic dessert with syrup or sugar syrup, adjusting the sweetness by the amount of syrup added.
How to Make Sugar-Free Cheese Halva
A wonderful recipe for making cheese halva without sugar. You can add syrup separately to control sweetness as you wish.
How to Make Walnut Mafroukeh Dessert
Walnut mafroukeh with cream is definitely a homemade recipe, and so delicious! It is garnished with nuts and served with syrup. This is one of the most famous Ramadan desserts—you have to try it.
Semolina Pudding with Milk
Semolina with milk — an easy, delicious and refreshing dessert when served chilled. Garnish with grated coconut or as you like; some enjoy it with syrup as well.
Banana Pancake Bites
A quick, tasty banana dessert—nutritious and kid-friendly. Coat bananas in a pancake-like batter, drizzle with chocolate or syrup, and serve immediately.
Carrot Jam for Decorating Desserts
Carrot jam, a homemade substitute for orange blossom and lemon blossom syrup for decorating desserts. An easy, distinctive, and truly wonderful recipe! Everyone needs this recipe before the holy month!
Foul (Fava Beans) with Tahini
A quick, standard recipe for foul with tahini using canned fava beans. You can make the same dish using soaked and boiled beans, but this version uses the convenient, time-saving shortcut.
How to Make Lebanese Meshabbak
Lebanese Meshabbak is a rich fried dessert that’s dipped in syrup after frying — light, crispy, easy to make and very inexpensive.
Layali Lubnan (Layali Lebanon)
Layali Lubnan is one of the most delicious Lebanese desserts and very easy to make at home. Serve chilled with honey or sugar syrup.
How to Make Muhallabia (Milk Pudding)
Muhallabia — a very easy, quick-to-make milk pudding. Serve topped with nuts and syrup, or add sugar to the pudding while cooking instead of serving with syrup. Kids love it.
Cheese Kunafa
Cheese kunafa — a beloved Arabic dessert often served for breakfast. Serve with syrup (attar) or with kunafa pastry and syrup, according to preference.
Freekeh with Chicken
Freekeh with chicken is cooked just like rice, but it must be soaked first because it is a little hard. For those who do not know freekeh, it is green wheat, rich in nutrients and delicious in taste. We recommend trying it.
Magic Cake with Cheese, Egg-Free
A wonderful recipe for making magic cake with cream cheese, without eggs. You can adjust the amount of syrup poured over the cake to suit your preferred level of sweetness.
Shish Barak Without Meat
Ingredients: 2 dried onions, finely chopped; black pepper; salt; 1 cup coarse white bulgur; 1/2 cup water; fried pine nuts; 1 kilo yogurt; 2 tablespoons starch; 1 cup water to dissolve the starch. Method: Soak the bulgur with a little water and leave it damp or soaked for about 20 minutes. Finely chop the onion...
How to Make the Tastiest Emirati Luqaimat
How to make the tastiest Emirati luqaimat with cardamom and saffron! Luqaimat are similar to the well-known awama, but without eggs and with a pinch of turmeric or yellow spice for color.
Flat Maamoul with Ashta and Pistachio
Flat (layered) maamoul filled with ashta (clotted cream) and pistachios — a special, elegant dessert worth trying. The recipe includes homemade ashta and syrup.
Layali Lubnan (Lebanese Nights Dessert)
Layali Lubnan, or Lebanese Nights, is an easy and delicious dessert featuring two layers of cream – one cooked and one fresh. It's garnished with pistachios and served with a sweet syrup.