Jewelled Breakfast Wheat Pudding

Belila

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    3-4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Egypt: Recipes and stories from an ancient land

By Suzanne Zeidy and Rawah Badrawi

Published 2026

  • About

Dakhla’s alluvial soil produced enough wheat to fuel up the Roman empire across centuries. Though much of the wheat was destined for Roman tables, its high availability likely inspired belila - a wheat breakfast that combines the seeds, nuts, and fruits that traders typically found along The Silk Road. A pudding bejewelled by the delectable crops of the oasis reflects the prosperity that wheat cultivation brought to Dakhla - the kind of abundance that prompted Romans to incentivize N