Traditional Ways with Flatbread

Name: Traditional Ways with Flatbread
Cuisine: Iraqi
Ingredients: Boil a cup of milk with 1 teaspoon sugar, and pour it into a bowl. Cut hot freshly baked bread into bite-size pieces and add to the milk. Traditionally it is drizzled with a generous amount of sizzling hot clarified butter.; Serve bread warm with a dip of drained yogurt (see Chapter 2), or roll it around warm toasted walnuts. Have it with sweetened hot tea. Khamee’a (bread sopped in milk); In the anonymous thirteenth-century Andalusian cookbook Anwa’ al-Saydala fi Alwan al-At’ima a similar recipe is called thareed al-haleeb (bread sopped in milk).

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Delights from the Garden of Eden

By Nawal Nasrallah

Published 2019

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Method

Dibis w’Rashi (date syrup with tahini/sesame paste)

Serve bread warm with the traditional dip of dibis w’rashi: put some date syrup in a bowl, and drizzle it generously with tahini. Proportions depend on your personal preference. Interestingly, combining date syrup with ta