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Step-by-Step Guide to Make Any-night-of-the-week Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding

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Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, om ali/ umm ali/ egyptian bread pudding. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

You could think of Om Ali as the Egyptian cousin of the ever-so-popular bread pudding. Same idea of soaking some type of bready carb with dairy and sugar and baking it in the oven. Om Ali skips the eggs though, which makes it lighter in texture, looser and milkier as opposed to custardy. Instead of bread, it is traditionally made with baked puff pastry, phyllo or roaa (Egyptian flat bread.

Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook om ali/ umm ali/ egyptian bread pudding using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding:
  1. Get 450 grm palmiers (french hearts)
  2. Get 450 ml milk
  3. Get 1/2 can condensed milk (or as per taste)
  4. Make ready 1 cup mixed nuts (walnuts, almonds, cashew, pistachio, raisins)
  5. Get 1/2 cup desiccated coconut 🥥
  6. Prepare 200 ml olpers cream

Legend has it that im Ali was the first wife of the Sultan Ezz El Din Aybek. Om Ali is a traditional and national Egyptian Dessert. It is basically a bread pudding in which Egyptian bread is soaked in milk with nuts and baked with clotted cream topping. Om Ali is sometimes also spelled as Um Ali or Umm Ali, all these are the same dessert.

Steps to make Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding:
  1. In a big mixing bowl add milk and condensed milk and mix well.
    Om Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread PuddingOm Ali/ Umm Ali/ Egyptian Bread Pudding1. Roughly chop the nuts of your choice.
  2. In a heat proof serving dish, layer the palmiers, top with nuts and coconut, then pour the milk over it. Repeat the steps. I divided the dessert in 2 medium dishes.
  3. Top with lots of cream.
  4. Pre heat the oven and place the dish on medium rack for 10 mins with top flame only. (if you have a regular gas oven, give extra 5 mins on the top most rack, keep checking in between)
  5. Remove from oven and let it cool on room temperature, top with more nuts if you like.
  6. Serve as it is or chill for a while.

It is basically a bread pudding in which Egyptian bread is soaked in milk with nuts and baked with clotted cream topping. Om Ali is sometimes also spelled as Um Ali or Umm Ali, all these are the same dessert. Unroll the puff pastry sheets, and place flat on a baking sheet. Break the puff pastry into pieces, and place in a large bowl. Add the raisins, almonds, pine nuts, pistachios and coconut, and toss to distribute.

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