Jūdhāba of Qaṭāʾif (Jūdhābat al-Qaṭāʾif)

Origin: Baghdad, Iraq

Source: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, 1226

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pack almond-and-fried-sugar-stuffed qaṭāʾif into a pot between two thin dough sheets, set beneath the chicken.
  2. Between each pair of pancakes put sugar and peeled, finely pounded, perfumed almonds; pour fresh sesame oil over.
  3. Optionally add fresh milk and more sugar.
  4. When cooked and aromatic, lift off. (Variant: substitute walnuts and their oil for the almonds.)

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