Sooji Halwa (Semolina Halwa)
Sooji Halwa is sometimes called Indian fudge, along with its cousin, Atta Halwa, which is made with wholewheat flour or chapatti flour. I have many memories of eating one or the other, as a child, in fact I have a…
Category Eggless Recipes
Zabadee el Mishmish (Egyptian Apricot Pudding)
First published July 2013, updated Jun 2017. Zabadee el Mishmish is a delightful chilled Egyptian dessert of apricots, cottage cheese and yoghurt. I learnt to make this from a colleague in London who used to regale us with stories and…
The Best Mahalabia Recipe (Middle Eastern Milk Pudding)
Mahalabia (also spelled muhallabia, muhalabia, muhallebi, mahalabiya – and closely related to malabi) is the Middle East’s answer to a chilled milk pudding: softly set, lightly sweet, and scented with rose water or orange blossom water. It takes about 10…
Mascarpone Panna Cotta – Mini Dessert
A delicious and easy recipe for Panna Cotta, made from mascarpone. Check out the Savour the Flavour Show on YouTube when I made various flavours. If ever there was a dessert to rival my love affair with cheesecakes, it is…
Eggless Vanilla Buttercream Icing (perfect for Cakes, Cupcakes and Macarons)
A simple buttercream icing for filling cakes. As this doesn’t contain any eggs, you don’t need to place the cake in the fridge. Enough to fill and ice an 8in/20cm cake. You might want to visit the Cake Decorating Page…
Baklava, the favourite Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Dessert Pastry
First published Sep 2011. Updated June 2017. I suppose the most well known Middle Eastern pastry. I adore baklava and find them terribly addictive, never being able to stop at a sensible number! Unfortunately for me, when it comes to…