Lebanese Mouhallabia – Milk Pudding | International Recipes

Middle east is famous for desserts because they need cool food to beat their hot climate. Now that summer has come, we also need lot of cool recipes. The good thing about this Lebanese Mouhallabia is that it needs only ingredients that are readily available in the  kitchen. Also, it takes hardly 5 mins to prepare.

Recipe Cuisine : International / Lebanon | Recipe Category: Dessert

Preparation Time: 2 mins  | Cooking Time: 10 mins | Yields: 2-3 cups

Ingredients:

Milk	1 ½ cup  + 2 tbsp ( 1 cup = 240 ml)
Corn Flour	1 tbsp
Sugar	3 tbsp
Rose Water	2 tsp
Chopped Nuts (badam, pista)	3 tbsp

Procedure:

1. Add milk and sugar in a wide thick bottom pan. Bring it to boil. Keep the flame at medium only.

2. Mix corn flour with 2 tbsp of milk without lumps.

3. Add this corn flour mixture with the boiling mil mixture. Mix them well and cook till the mixture becomes thick. Switch off the flame

4. Add rose water and mix them well.

5. Pour into serving bowl and allow it to cool down completely. Chill them until serve.

6. Sprinkle the chopped nuts over the top of the pudding before serve.

            Tasty and easy 5 mins Labanese milk pudding ( Mouhallabia) is ready to serve.

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Lebanese Cucumber Yogurt Cold Soup Recipe | International Recipes

We eat cucumber mostly as it is. I came across this recipe and immediately tried it. This soup enhances the taste of cucumber significantly. My family gobbled them up quickly. Lebanese cucumber cold soup is nice refreshment for the summer.

Recipe Cuisine : International / Lebanon | Recipe Category: Soup

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Yields: 3 cups | Source: thelemonbowl

Ingredients:

Cucumber	1
Curd / Yogurt	1 cup
Water	1 cup
Garlic Pods	2
Mint Leaves	10
Salt	To taste
Lemon Juice	1 tbsp

Procedure:

1. Peel the skin of the cucumber using the peeler.

2. Grate the cucumber using the grater.

3. Wash and chop the mint leaves into small pieces.

4. Remove the skin of the garlic pods and grate them using the fine grater.

5. Take lemon juice from 1 lemon without it seeds.

6. In a wide bowl, add grated cucumber (from 2), curd, water, garlic (from 4), mint leaves (from 3), salt and lemon juice (from 5).

7. Mix them well with wire whisk till they combined very well.

8. Keep this mixture in the refrigerator for 2 hours and then serve.

Note:

1. Adjust the salt level according to your taste.

2. You can serve at room temperature also.

3. If you can use chilled cucumber and chilled curd, then no need to refrigerate.

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Lebanon Butter Cookie / Ghraybeh - The Easiest International Cookie

     Lebanon Butter Cookie, Ghraybeh, is very easy to make because it has only 3 ingredients. It has a heavenly taste and make first time cookie makers to really start enjoying cookie making and would inspire them to make more and more cookies. Normally I don't taste the cookies while making them. But Lebanon Butter Cookie tempts me so much that I can't avoid tasting one immediately.

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Recipe Cuisine : International | Recipe Category: Cookies | Source: maureenabood

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time: 15 mins | Yields: 20 cookies

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour / Maida	1 cup
Butter (at room temperature)	½ cup
Icing Sugar (Click here for homemade Icing sugar recipe)	½ cup
Rose Essence	1 tbsp
For Dusting:
Icing Sugar	1/4 cup

Procedure:

1. Add butter in a wide bowl. Beat the butter till it reaches the fluffy and creamy consistency using wire whisk or electric beater.

2. Now add ½ cup of Icing sugar and rose essence. Mix them well with spatula. Then mix them well with whisk or beater.

3. Then add the flour little by little and mix them well. Knead it into a soft and pliable dough.

4. Take apple size ball from the dough and roll it into ½ inch a log (1/2 inch thickness cylinders like diamond bars) on the floured surface.

5. Now cut the cylinder into ½ inch thickens bars diagonally.

6. Place these diamond bars on the ungreased baking tray with 1 inch gap between them.

7.  Preheat the oven for 200 degree Celsius for 10 mins.  Bake this for 15 mins at 150 degree Celsius.

8. Take them out from the oven and cool down slightly.

9. Then take the cookies from the tray and arrange them on the plate.

10. Now sprinkle the ¼ cup icing sugar over the cookies using the tea filter.

11. Allow it to cool down completely and serve or store it in an air tight container for later use.

    Wow aromatic and delicious mouth melting Lebanon cookies ready!!!

Note:

1. Use maida instead of wheat flour.

2. Use orange blossom essence instead of rose essence.

3. Keep this at room temperature for 2-3 weeks.

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