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Sweets

Sahlab

Great for breakfast or dessert. And when life gives you the chance to eat dessert for breakfast, what could go wrong?

Sahlab

Ingredients

  • 1 cup full cream milk
  • 1 tbs cornflour
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • ½ tsp orange blossom water
  • ½ tsp rose water

Garnish

  • 1 tbs ground pistachios
  • Pinch ground cinnamon

Toasted bread

  • 1 pita bread
  • 3 drops orange blossom water
  • 1 pinch cinnamon
  • 1 tsp caster sugar

Method

  1. 1Warm the milk in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring.
  2. 2Dissolve the cornflour in a few dashes of water.
  3. 3Add to the milk and stir until it thickens.
  4. 4Stir in the sugar, rose water and orange blossom water.
  5. 5Pour into bowls while hot, sprinkle with cinnamon and pistachio and serve warm.

Toasted bread

  1. 6Combine the cinnamon, orange blossom water and sugar.
  2. 7Sprinkle evenly over the pita.
  3. 8Toast until golden.

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