Umm Ali
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Umm Ali

Flaky pastry baked in sweet milk with nuts. Egypt's bread pudding, but fancier.

50 minTime
7 gProtein each
mildSpice
Ali's mother2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayEgyptian style.
The original
380kcalsame
7 gproteinsame
2 gfibresame
50minutessame

The original Umm Ali.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

8 servings
Puff pastry1 sheet, baked and broken
Milk3¼ cups
Fresh cream (thickened cream, heavy cream)½ cup
Sugar6 tbsp
Almonds¼ cup
Pistachios2 tbsp
Raisins3 tbsp
Desiccated coconut (unsweetened shredded coconut)3 tbsp

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Bake the puff pastry until puffed and golden. Break it into pieces.
  2. 2Layer the pastry with the nuts, raisins and coconut in a baking dish.
  3. 3Heat the milk with the sugar until steaming and pour over the pastry.
  4. 4Spoon the cream over the top and bake at 200 C until golden and bubbling.
Serve it like this

Serve warm in the baking dish, spooned into bowls.

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