Umm Ali (egyptian dessert)
Umm Ali (egyptian dessert)

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, umm ali (egyptian dessert). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Om Ali is an Egyptian bread pudding, it's one of the most popular desserts in Egypt! This recipe is one of the best, with nuts and cream, follow the recipe. This is Food Fusion's take on 'Umm Ali" a famous Egyptian dessert.

Umm Ali (egyptian dessert) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Umm Ali (egyptian dessert) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have umm ali (egyptian dessert) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Umm Ali (egyptian dessert):
  1. Make ready puff pastery
  2. Take walnuts
  3. Get pistachio
  4. Get almonds
  5. Get shredded coconut
  6. Prepare raisins
  7. Take milk
  8. Get cream
  9. Take sugar

This Egyptian Sweet Pastry Dessert is totally delicious, easy, and made from really common ingredients. Umm Ali, which means, is a cuisine of Egyptian origin. This cuisine gets its name from the woman who has invented this dessert. Om Ali or Umm Ali is the Egyptian equivalent to the western bread pudding.

Steps to make Umm Ali (egyptian dessert):
  1. The puff pastery I buy comes cut into squares, if you buy it as one sheet cut it into squares. Spread the puff pastery in the baking sheet and bake it in the oven at 200ºC for 20 minutes or until the pastery has puffed up and is slightly golden brown.
  2. Set the pastery aside to cool down. While waiting for the pastery to cool chop the walnuts, pistachios, and almonds. Mix them together in a bowl and add the coconut to them.
  3. Once the puff pastery has cooled shred half of it and place it into a deep baking dish or pyrex. Spread the nut mixture and raisins over the pastery layer, but save 1-2 tablespoon of the nut mixture.
  4. Shread the rest off the puff pastery and spread over the nut mixture layer. Sprinkle the 1-2 tablespoon of nut mixture on top.
  5. Mix the milk, cream, and sugar in a pan. Heat the mixture until all the sugar has dissolved.
  6. Pour the milk mixture over the puff pastry and nut mixture. Bake in a 180ºC oven for 10 minutes.
  7. This dish is best served hot. Enjoy :)

A traditional Egyptian dessert of soaked bread, milk and loads of nuts. In short, it is said that this dessert was made to celebrate the death of Shagaret Ad-dorr- who was the first and last woman - sultana - to rule Egypt. Umm Ali, an Egyptian dessert you can whip up at home effortlessly and make it look as if it just arrived from the royal palace. All thanks to my friend Rafee of The Big Sweet Tooth for tempting me badly sometime back with Umm Ali. Um Ali is a dessert that combines the creaminess of bread pudding and cinnamon nut stuffing of baklava.

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