Monday, February 23, 2009

Egyptian "Balah El Sham" dessert

For the dough:-
250 ml water
25 ml Oil
250 gm flour
3 eggs
2 ml vanilla essence

For Sugar syrup:-
150 ml water
650 gm sugar
175 gm glucose

Method for syrup:-
Dissolve sugar in water. Heat it in heavy base pan, until sugar melts. Add glucose to this syrup. Continue boiling syrup till thick. Remove from heat and cool off.

Method for dough:-
Boil water and Oil in heavy sauce pan.
Add the flour to this boiling solution and cook till it thickens and start to leave the sides of pan.
Cool mix and add eggs slowly, one at a time. Then add vanilla essence.
Mix the mixture till it forms tight thick dough.
Remove and put in piping bag.
Pipe the mix, one finger length into oil and deep fry. When it cooks, it will double in size. So drop enough mix in to the pan.
Once done remove from Oil and drop into room temp sugar syrup.
Let it stand for 2-3 minutes and remove onto wire mesh to drain off excess syrup.

Serve Balah El Sham . . .

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