Dessert

Balah el-Sham

Name: Balah el-Sham
Total time: 45m
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Egypt
Ingredients: 250 ml water; 100g butter; 1 tbsp sugar; 150g flour; 3 eggs; Pinch salt; Oil for frying; 500g sugar syrup with lemon and blossom water

Choux-like fluted logs piped straight into hot oil, fried crisp and drenched in cold sugar syrup — Cairo's Ramadan mainstay.

45m 12 servings Medium

Ingredients

• 250 ml water
• 100g butter
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 150g flour
• 3 eggs
• Pinch salt
• Oil for frying
• 500g sugar syrup with lemon and blossom water

Method

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Boil water, butter, salt and sugar; beat in flour to a smooth paste; cook 2 min.

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1
Boil water, butter, salt and sugar; beat in flour to a smooth paste; cook 2 min.
2
Off-heat beat in eggs one at a time.
3
Pipe 5 cm fluted logs into 160°C oil; fry until deep gold and hollow.
4
Drop hot logs into cold syrup; drain.