Recipe

Booza Bi Maes Zahr Recipe

	Scearley / All my dishes 1 year, 5 months ago A Lebanese favorite, it's orange blossom ice cream. But you might as well use the original Lebanese name - it's more exotic. It helps if you can get the right ingredients. Prep:20m Cook:35m Servings:8	Scearley
	orange blosson ice cream lebanese pistachio

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Ingredients

3 3/4 c milk

1 1/4 c cream

1 1/4 c sugar

1 tsp sahlab (similar to corn starch)

1/4 tsp mustikah (pine tree resin)

1 Tbsp orange blossom water

chopped pistachios

Directions

Dissolve sahlab in a small bit of milk.

Pour remaining milk in a saucepan with cream and sugar, and bring to a soft boil.

Add the milk and sahlab to the boiled milk, stirring occasionally.

Grind mustikah with 1 Tbsp sugar with a mortar and pestle into a fine powder. Stir into the milk.

Simmer over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add orange blossom water, and remove from heat.

Beat well with a spoon.

Pour into a bowl and cover with foil. Freeze.

Scrape the bowl down three or four times while freezing, mixing in the frozen crystals.

Once evenly frozen, transfer to the refrigerator for 20 minutes before serving.

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Comments

thia 1 year, 5 months ago said:
So interesting! I just read about a Turkish frozen dessert that uses sahlab/salep in the current Saveur. I mentally filed it under "fantasy food" (in addition to needing salep and milk from goats that have been grazing on wild oregano, the technique looked a bit tricky), but this seems actually attainable!

My mastiha is admittedly Greek and a few years old... wondering if it is more or less the same thing.
Maybe the "Middle Eastern" grocery down the street from me (run by Jordanians, but they have a huge variety of ethnic ingredients) would have sahlab/salep.

berry 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Just... not words.

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