Lebanese Food Recipes

Lebanese Recipe Serves 5:

• 1/4 cup rice
• 2 cups water
• 3 cups milk
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon rose water or cardamon powder
• 1 1/2 tablespoon sugar
• cinnamon

Wash and boil rice in water until water is almost absorbed.  Add milk, salt, sugar and rose water and boil until milk is absorbed.  Pour into a large plate or small pudding dishes if desired and decorate with cinnamon and allow cooling.  Store in refrigerator and serve with honey or sugar. 

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Rice Pudding Lebanese Recipe

• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons rice flour, or ground rice
• 4 drops vanilla

Add the sugar to 1 cup milk and bring to boil.  Mix the rice flour in the remaining milk and add the hot mixture.  Stir constantly until the mixture comes to boil.  Then add the vanilla and continue to stir until the mixture begins to thicken.  Take off the heat when the mixture is thick and pour into individual containers.  Allow to cool off and place in the refrigerator.  Serve cool.

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Namoura Recipe- Lebanese Dessert

• 2 lbs. semolina
• 2 sticks of margarine
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup water (add more if needed)

Melt margarine and pour over semolina, add water, baking powder and mix ingredients until they are well blended.  Brush bottom of baking tray with tahini, pour the mixture and spread evenly and bake at 375 degrees F until it is nicely browned.   Remove and while hot, pour the syrup over the Namoura.  Cut into squares.  Almonds may be placed on top of each square if desired.

• Syrup:

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

  Mix water and sugar and put over stove until boiling.  Then add the lemon juice and move off the stove and allow cooling off.

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Lebanese Custard Recipe

• 3 1/2 cups milk
• 4 to 5 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the milk, sugar and vanilla and bring to boil.  Allow to cool and add eggs, then beat very well, preferably with an electric beater.  Prepare a ring mold by heating 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon water in the mold until sugar is crystallized.  Coat the mold with burned sugar until it stops flowing.  Pour the milk mixture into the mold and cook.  Place in an oven at 350 degrees F. for 45 minutes to 1 hour until the mixture is solid.  Cool in a refrigerator, turn over on a platter and serve.

Sfouf Recipe - Lebanese Dessert

• 4 cups semolina
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 3 cup powder sugar
• 1 1/2 butter
• 3 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon ground anis
• 1 teaspoon yellow food coloring
• 1/2 pine nuts

Mix semolina, flour, baking powder, coloring and anis.  Add butter and mix.  Mix sugar and milk and pour over the mix.  Brush bottom of 12 inch in diameter baking pan with tahini then pour the mixture into the baking pan.  Sprinkle pine nuts over the mixture. Bake for half an hour in a preheated oven at 400 degrees F.  Take out of oven, leave to cool off then cut into cubs. 

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LEBANESE DESSERT RECIPE

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 1 large can sliced peaches
• 1 tablespoon butter (1 stick)

Melt the butter in a 9x9 inch pan.  Mix together the sugar, milk adn flour and pour over melted butter.  Pour peaches including the juice in the pan.  Sprinkle the top with cinnamon and nutmeg.  Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour.

LEBANESE DESSERT RECIPE

• 1 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
• 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans

Cream shortening and confectioners sugar together.  Gradually add other ingredients.  Shape into 1 inch balls.  Bake at 350 degrees 10-12 minutes on a greased cookie sheet until golden.  While warm, roll in additional confectioners sugar.