Mahlabia (Lebanese cardamom milk pudding)
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3 hours 25 min
This milk pudding is flavoured with cardamom. If you cannot find cardamom extract, let a few crushed cardamom pods steep in the hot milk for several minutes until fragrant.
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Ingredients
Serves: 5
- 500ml milk
- 45g cornflour
- 50g caster sugar
- 2 drops cardamom extract
- For the syrup
- 60ml water
- 60g caster sugar
- 1/4 vanilla pod, split lengthways and seeds removed
- For the garnish
- 1 handful unsalted chopped pistachios
- dried rose petals
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:15min ›
Extra time:3hr ›
Ready in:3hr25min
- In a bowl, stir 100ml of the milk with the cornflour until smooth.
- Pour the rest of the milk in a pot and add the sugar and cardamom extract. Heat at low temperature and stir until the sugar is fully dissolved.
- Whisk in the cornflour mix and simmer until thickened, 5 to 10 minutes, whisking constantly. Distribute the pudding over 5 ramekins. Cover and let cool, then chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
- For the syrup slowly bring water, sugar and vanilla seeds to the boil in a small pot and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Cool.
- Sprinkle each pudding with pistachios and rose petals and drizzle with 1 tablespoon syrup.
