10 Traditional Iftar Desserts To Try This Ramadan 2021

Ramadan brings out the best of us. We celebrate it with compassion, care for others and sweets! Here is a list of the amazing desserts consumed after a long day of fasting and enjoyed with a cup of coffee or tea.

• QATAYEF - The Middle Eastern version of pancakes! Fried or Baked, Nuts or Cream! All Goodness! Drizzled with rose water syrup!

• Umm Ali - Traditional Egyptian (now pan Arab) version of bread pudding with raisins and nuts!

• LUQAIMAT - The small balls of delicious, crunchy sweetness with drizzle of honey!

• BAKLAVA- Who does not know Baklava?! The layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey!

• KUNAFA - Slice of heaven! Shredded filo pastry, or alternatively fine semolina dough, soaked in sweet, sugar-based syrup, and typically layered with cheese, or with other ingredients such as clotted cream or nuts!

• BASBOUSA - made from a semolina batter and cooked in a pan, then sweetened with orange flower water, rose water or simple syrup, and typically cut into diamond shapes!

• AISH EL-SARAYA -  Fragrant scented sweetened breadcrumbs, topped with a cream referred to as ashta (Sort of like an Arabic clotted cream) and garnished with pistachios

FETEER - A flaky Egyptian layered pastry. It consists of many thin layers of dough and ghee and an optional filling!

HALAWAT EL JIBN - Levantine dessert made of a semolina and cheese dough, filled with cream!

MAAMOOL - a filled butter cookie made with semolina flour. The filling can be made with dried fruits like figs or dates or nuts such as pistachios or walnuts and occasionally almonds!

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