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cookies
topped with pistachios
be’lāwa baklava
balōza pudding made
– layers of flaky filo pastry cornflour and rosewater,
and nuts, soaked in syrup from cornflour, ground Menu Reader: Food
goolāsh baklava rice and sugar
kahk biscuits made meshmeshia
with flour and butter and pudding made from
covered in icing sugar cooked dried apricots and
khoshaf dried fruit cornflour
soaked in milk or syrup roz bil laban rice
(eaten during Ramadan) pudding
zalabya fritters soaked basboosa semolina
in syrup cake with nuts, soaked in
salatit fowākih syrup
fruit salad konāfa sticky noodle-
oom Aali hot like pastry with nuts and
pudding made from filo syrup
pastry soaked in milk with atayef thick
raisins, sugar, coconut, nuts pancake filled with nuts
and cinnamon and coconut and soaked in
‘ice cream’ ice syrup
cream feTeer type of
jelāti ice cream pancake made from layers
bleela milk pudding of flaky pastry with
with nuts, raisins and wheat sweet or savoury
mahalabaya milk fillings
pudding with rice,

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