Description
This Egyptian dessert contains phyllo dough or puff pastry, milk and nuts. Use any kind of nuts that you would like and eat it with a spoon. Legend has it that Om Ali was the first wife of the sultan Ezz El Din Aybek. When the sultan died, his second wife had a dispute with Om Ali, resulting in the second wife’s death. To celebrate, Om Ali made this dessert and distributed it among the people of the land.
Ingredients
- 1 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup chopped hazelnuts
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar, divided
- 4 cups milk
- ½ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Place the pastry sheets in the baking dish and place the dish in the oven. Watch it closely. When the top layer turns crunchy and golden
- remove it from the oven. Continue until all the sheets are cooked.
- Preheat the oven’s broiler.
- In a bowl
- combine walnuts
- pecans
- hazelnuts
- raisins
- coconut and 1/4 cup sugar. Break cooked pastry into pieces and stir into nut mixture. Spread mixture evenly in 9×13-inch dish.
- Bring milk and 1/2 cup sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Pour over nut mixture.
- Beat the heavy cream with the remaining 1/2 cup sugar until stiff peaks form. Spread evenly over nut mixture in dish.
- Place dessert under oven broiler until top is golden brown
- about 10 minutes. Serve hot.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 8