Egyptian Wheat Porridge
(
Belila
)
Preparation time:
6 hours 35 minutes
Servings:
6
Ingredients:
- Water (divided) - 6 cups
- Hot milk - 1/4 cup
- Ground cinnamon (optional) - 1/2 teaspoon
- Whole wheat berries - 1 cup
- Almonds (optional) - 1/4 cup
Directions:
- Boil the 2 cups of water in a pan. Stir in the wheat berries. Soak them for 6 hours. Sieve.
- Mix the wheat berries and 4 cups of the water. Let them boil. Cook for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave for 15 minutes.
- Divide the wheat berries between the bowls. Add hot milk, almonds, and cinnamon to all the bowls.
Om Ali
Preparation time:
1 hour
Servings:
8
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry sheets - 1 (17.5 ounces) package
- Chopped pecans - 1 cup
- Raisins - 1 cup
- White sugar (divided) - 1 1/4 cups
- Heavy cream - 1/2 cup
- Chopped walnuts - 1/2 cup
- Chopped hazelnuts - 1 cup
- Flaked coconut - 1 cup
- Milk - 4 cups
Directions:
- At 350o F, let the oven heat up. Lightly grease a baking dish.
- Put pastry sheets in the greased baking dish. Put it in preheated oven until top layer gets golden. Repeat the process for all the sheets.
- Heat the broiler.
- Take a mixing bowl and stir in the walnuts, 1/4 cup of the sugar, pecans, coconut, hazelnuts, and raisins. Break the pastry into small pieces. Put them in the nut mixture. Pour the mixture into the dish.
- Boil 1/2 cup of the sugar and milk in a pan. Spread it over the nut mixture.
- Whisk remaining 1/2 cup of the sugar and heavy cream. Pour it over the nut mixture.
- Put it under the preheated oven broiler for 10 minutes until golden.
