Layali Lubnan

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My Plate, Your Plate is a storytelling and community arts cooking project where participants share recipes and stories. The project aims to build relationships between local residents and people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, breaking down social isolation, building cultural awareness and solidarity.

This recipe was shared by Amal, project participant, hear her story below and download the recipe.

Amal's Story

Photo of Amal by Samuel Phibbs, Amal wears a pink tshirt with a grey/black open jacket/ hoody over the top, her long hair is pulled back in a ow pony tail and she has a gold necklace and earing, she is side on profile

Photo by Samuel Phibbs

Transcript

Amal transcript (DOCX 12.6KB)

Ingredients

5 cups milk
1 cup semolina
½ cup sugar
2 tablespoons rosewater
300ml thickened cream
Pistachios and rose petals for decorating

Method

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180 °C.
Get a large to medium sized glass or enamel baking dish.

Step 2

In a saucepan over moderate heat add milk and slowly whisk in the semolina and sugar. Bring to a gentle boil stirring constantly. Once the mixture has thickened take off the heat and pour into the baking dish. Once the mixture has cooled to touch refrigerate until firm and cool.

Step 3

Whip the cream until stiff and layer across the top of your mixture in the baking dish.

Step 4

Decorate your dish by sprinkling pistachios and rose petals over the whipped cream. Cut square slices of the dessert and serve on small plates.

Allergy warning

Contains dairy and nuts

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Layali Lubnan recipe card (PDF 366.1KB)