Apr 23, 2010

Interesting Omani Desserts




Allah pleased all your time



I have the honour your invitation for recognize Omani deserts. They have speciall taste and delicious taste. Here I will give you how you can make the omani deserts at home. It is interesting and am sure you will interest with it.

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I will give you some omani deserts with its names,ingredients and the way.So, welcome dear

First, Luqaimat (be more during Ramadan)


Ingredients:
2 white tea cups flour, 2 teaspoon yeast - a pinch of salt - 2 eggs - 2 Tea spoons powdered milk (optional) - 2 spoons coconut (optional) - Duffy water to knead oil - for frying

Way:
- Kneaded ingredients previous well and be the dough thin and soft and leave to brewing for almost two hours.
- Heat oil on the fire.
- Begin Petkoer dough and throw it in oil and is turned over to the equally mature and gain blond or red light.
- Spray before submission with chira or honey.

The modus operandi of chira (country):
Ingredients:
a cup of water - two cups sugar - saffron dissolved in water - cardemom

Way:
the sugar dissolves with water on medium heat and then began to boil and added to saffron and cardamom and is recycled to the strength that condenses a little bit.





Second, Al Khabeesah




Ingredients":

1 teaspoon saffron - a spoon of rose water - 3 cups flour No. 2- 1 and 1/4 cup sugar - 1/2 cup oil - 1 spoon cardemom - 1 cup coconut

Method
1 - put saffron in rose water for aperiod of time.

2 - turn the flour in a pot on the fire until bright yellow color, then sifts and returned back to The pot.

3 - mixed with sugar and water and added to flour and stir with him and then pour oil A little bit and then move rose water and add the nuts and progress.


Third, Algramil:

Ingredients:

Red flour + (1-2) eggs by the required quantity + a pinch of salt + water to knead ..
(Coverage): Nahth it yet equipped Oman Butter + Honey Oman.

Way:
1. Mix all ingredients together, taking into account that the semi-liquid paste.

2. Cover the mixture and leave for a short period.

3. special iron materialused to prepare special bread of Oman (sigh) scanned on the light a little oil.

4. Pour the mixture using a spoon , where will appear in the form of circular disks, and then turn to the other side after making sure that it become dark brown from the bottom, until the quantity.

5. After using the spray spoon ghee and honey on the disks. Give when its hot.


Fulfillment, and wellness ...




Pictures of Other Omani desserts and food:

Harees


Coconut sweet



Balaleet

Mandaze

Omani bread








Now, I like to invite you to recognize the stages of Omani Halwa Making. So, welcome dears:

The Omani Halwa is a very famous traditional dessert in Oman.
Omani halwa (sweet) is famous at home and abroad as a symbol of traditional Omani hospitality. It .is usually served in Omani homes before drinking Arabic coffee After cooking, the halwa can be preserved for more than four months without losing its quality, and without the need for refrigeration or preserving agents
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I love omani halwa a lot so, listen to my advanture Last year in summer, I decided to make Omani halwa in my house. Its taste was good really, its not as the halwa we buy but its similar. its taste was very nice and my family told me to make it again to them. I felt very happy with my sweet cooking.

The gradients are:
a cup of water ,3 and half cup of sugar, 10 teaspoons of starch , 1 spoon of powdered cardamom , 1 template Lurpak butter 227 grams, quantity of saffron, 1/2 cup of rose water and nuts


The way:

1. Mixed with rose water, cardamom and set aside
2. Put sugar on the fire in the pot and stir constantly until it becomes golden
3. Add butter to sugar, stirring continuously until the butter melts and becomes diagonal color mix to flush
4. Melted starch with a little water with the addition of cardamom
5. Put the starch mixture and cardamom gradually mix with the previous continuity in the
stirring until mixture holds together

6. Add into the mix rose water and saffron marinated and continues flipping
7. When good cohesion of the dessert in the pot and decorate with
nuts



So, follow my steps and make halwa for special occasions and events and surprise your family with your sweets. I hope you enjoy it, try to make it many times and tell me about the result


This is my halwa put if you need the professional Omani Halwa you can get it from

Al Saifi for Omani Halwa Making



Omani halwa is an essential part of Omani traditions and especially at Nizwa city. We will take you in a tour in one factor which makes Omani Halwa in Nizwa city. It is a famous factory in Oman. It's Al Saifi for Omani Halwa Making for its owner Saif bin Shames bin Mohammed Al sefei



The Halwa is making on gas stoves but its prefer to make on wood stoves especially cutting fire wood which prefer because of known for its durability, smoke and odourfree properties.



Enter the cutting fire wood under cooking stoves .a marjal (large cooking pot used especially for halwa






Then ignite the fire



All type of halwa has basic components change quantity related to the type
Water, red sugar, white sugar, nuts, saffron, starch,omani rose water, cardamom, butter,
and eggs

First step is boiling the water in al marjal (large, open copper vessel

After that , add red and white sugar to the water.




Add quantity of eggs

Eggs are important because it make the impurities at water and sugar to float.



After period of adding eggs, the impurities float and we take it out by the sieve


add starch and keeping stir


2person do the stir stage to keep it continuous and doesn't stop.


Outside, we should care for hot degree under al marjal increase it or decrease it related to the stage of cooking.



After that, adding the nuts



The stir continues from 2 hours to 4 hours related to the quantity of it.



The stir is necessary to avoid sticking of the mixture in the bottom of al marjal


Work with a soul of one team


At ripening stage add butter and continue the stir


Prepare saffron mixed











With rose water which produce in Al jabal Al khaddar


Add it and continue stir





Different quantity of saffron related to the type of halwa we made


The object we use at stir called al bastan


Continue care and watching to the fire outside and reduce it at the final stages

The final thing we add is cardamom



Put the halwa after it is ripening in a large vessel




The last stage put the halwa in certain vessel



Normally, the dishes is sticking on customers requests( pottery or dishes with different sizes)




The large earthenware bowl Called dist. The biggest one is equal 20 kilos. Then half dist equal 10 kilo and the last quarter dist equal 5 kilos



Colors of halwa categories to three types' red (black), white, yellow



Halwa quality categories to normal halwa, middle halwa and special halwa




Adding nuts on the surface of the halwa


Adding nuts as final and beauty touch

Keep it in special places.

Don't cover halwa when its hot to don't become invalid because of the water droplets which occur on the cover when its hot

After that, carry the halwa to the market.



Al saifi for Omani Halwa Making factory Located in Nizwa suq and it’s the only branch in Oman


It attracts a lot of people especially at holidays, occasions, religious and national aids.



It records the customer's requests and agreement about quantity and required charges.



Also, there are luxury gifts


Always, Omani halwa attracts a lot of people inside and outside Oman




because it represents as one of the basic dishes especially at wedding occasions



It is a symbol of Omani hospitality and a aboriginal


It represents the great past of Oman traditions and cultures in happy celebrations




It is interest for the tourists who visit Oman, so they buy it and take quantity when they leave Oman







I think every single expatriate and tourist MUST try the Omani Halwa!








Some pictures in my blog are from the website http://www.omanya.net/

and others I brout them from www.googleimage.com/ omani desserts




3 comments:

  1. l like your tpoic very much and i thinks it is really interseting one to see and discuss between freinds and other peole. It is good to let other peole know how to make Halwa.

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  2. Hello Munira I'm Tahani
    Frankly, your blog is very sweet.
    The topic is useful for tourists.
    Omani sweets is something special in our country.

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