This is Layali Lubnan, which translates to Nights of Lebanon. It is a delicious pudding of sorts, made with semolina and milk, but allowed to thicken to a slice-able consistency. The traditional flavoring is mastic (mistka – gum arabic), but I looked high and low in my kitchen and my little jar of mastic seems to have run away. I really wanted … [Read more…]
Baked {Sweet} Coconut Black Rice
I almost named this recipe rice pudding, because that is what you think of when you cook rice with sugar and milk, but it isn’t quite a pudding. It is rather firm, but sweet, black rice. So it isn’t quite pudding-y. Plus, it isn’t cooked with dairy milk, it is cooked with coconut milk. A fellow blogger introduced me to Forbidden Black Rice. I … [Read more…]
Meatless Monday – Oatmeal Helba – Vegan Oatmeal Fenugreek Cake Bars
This is a reworked dessert/sweet recipe. It is made with fenugreek seeds. It is usually made with mostly semolina. I wanted to make these bars, but noted that I only had about half the required semolina. I had a hunch that oatmeal would taste great in this, and I was right. From the original posted recipe Helba is a traditional sweet, dense cake … [Read more…]
Helba – Fenugreek Cake Bars
This is my first dessert/sweet post on this blog. I think Helba is a good introduction to Levantine sweets. Helba is a traditional sweet, dense cake bar made of fenugreek seeds and sweetened with a sugar syrup. This is a completely vegan dessert. You will note that the cake itself only has 1 tablespoon of sugar that is dissolved with the … [Read more…]