Mahalabia Dessert Recipe | Muhallebi | Mahalabia Dessert Recipe|Middle Eastern Milk Pudding|Muhallebi|Muhalabi|Mahlebieh|Muhalabieh|How to make traditional Middle Eastern pudding|Recipe to make Mahalabia Dessert
What is Mahalabia Dessert Recipe | Muhallebi | Muhalabi
Traditional middle eastern style creamy milk pudding Mahalabia Dessert Recipe | Muhallebi |Muhalabi is made using few handy ingredients easily available from your pantry. Moreover it’s eggless, easy and quick to make, and tastes so yummy.
Mahalabia Dessert recipe | Muhallebi | Middle Eastern Milk Pudding is known by many names with different pronunciation such as Muhalabi, Mahlebieh, Muhallebi, Mahalebi or Mohallabieh.
The main ingredients used to make this delicious desserts are milk, sugar, cornflour/rice flour, Rooh afza/Rose sharbat and cream.
What should be infused to make Mahalabia Dessert Recipe?
It’s generally infused with Rose water/ rose syrup or orange blossom water and served with garnish of chopped pistachios. I came across this interesting recipe from here.
It has a slightly jiggly texture and is served cold. Therefore this can be a great summer cooler with different flavors like vanilla, cardamom, chocolate, rose and orange blossom water.
You may would want to try my other dessert recipes like Pretty pink strawberry cheesecake cupcakes, Rice kheer and fruit sushi rolls, Yogurt mousse with gulkand and rise petal honey, and Honey semifreddo recipe.
Mahalabia Dessert a very stylish and pretty dessert
Mahalabia Dessert|Muhallebi|Middle Eastern Milk Pudding looks so pretty and sounds very fancy, like you have spent hours churning out this beautiful looking dessert, which otherwise is not.
A perfect Ramadan treat, this recipe is a quick fix dessert when you run out of time or when you have unexpected guests.
For instance, this recipe is quite similar to panacotta but much lighter, similarly it doesn’t use any setting agent gelatin/agar agar. The thickening agent used here in this recipe is cornflour or rice flour.
if you like milk based puddings, you’re sure going to love this one.
So let’s get started.
Recipe card :
- To make milk pudding:
- Milk ½ liters
- Sugar 3 tbsp
- Corn Flour 3 tbsp
- Rose water 1 tsp
- To make Rose cream:
- Fresh Cream 4 tbsp
- Rose Syrup 4 tbsp
- To make Rose toppings:
- Water ¼ cup
- Corn flour 2 tbsp
- Rose syrup 2 tsp
- Chopped pistachios 10
- Piping bag 1
- To make milk pudding
- Take ½ liter or 500 ml milk.
- Mix in cornflour and whisk it properly so that no lumps remain.
- Now put on the flame and keep this milk cornflour mixture on stove and stir continuously.
- Add sugar and keep the flame on low.
- Next mix rose water.
- Meanwhile continue to stir the mixture, until the milk is thickened.
- Once thickened take it out in a bowl.
- Your milk pudding is ready.
- To make rose cream
- Mix rose syrup with fresh cream in a bowl. In to this mix half of the milk pudding made earlier.
- In this way, the pudding will have two parts, one white and another pink.
- To make rose pudding
- In a bowl take room temperature water and add corn flour to it. Mix in the rose syrup in it and transfer it to the pan. Keep this on stove on medium to low flame.
- keep stirring it until it becomes thick.
- Remove from the flame and let it cool down.
- Now fill it in the piping bag.
- Serving Suggetions :
- Take a glass and put some chopped pistachios in the bottom.
- Now add 2 spoons of pink cream on it.
- Put white pudding over pink cream
- Now cut the corner of the piping bag and make the desired design for topping.
- Decorate it with sliced pistachios and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Process to make Mahalabia Dessert Recipe
To make milk pudding
Take 1/2 liter or 500 ml milk. Mix in cornflour and whisk it properly so that no lumps remain.
After that put on the flame and keep this milk cornflour mixture on stove and stir continuously. Add sugar and keep the flame on low.
Next mix rose water. Meanwhile continue to stir the mixture, until the milk is thickened.
Once thickened take it out in a bowl. Your milk pudding is ready.
To make rose cream
Mix rose syrup with fresh cream in a bowl. In to this mix half of the milk pudding made earlier.
In this way, the pudding will have two parts, one white and another pink.
To make rose pudding
In a bowl take room temperature water and add corn flour to it. Mix in the rose syrup and transfer it to the pan. Keep this on stove on medium to low flame.
keep stirring it until it becomes thick. Remove from the flame and let it cool down.
Now fill it in the piping bag.
Serving Suggetions :
Take a glass and put some chopped pistachios in the bottom.
Now add 2 spoons of pink cream on it. Put white pudding over pink cream.
Or
After adding pistachios at the base pour white cream at the base and top it with pink cream.
Now cut the corner of the piping bag and make the desired pattern/design for topping.
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After that decorate it with sliced pistachios and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Remove and serve cold.
My tip :
Cornflour should always be diluted with cold / room temperature milk or water.
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Such a fabulous post. After you present it to your guests on dinner, I don’t think they will be further curious to know what next. It has the tendency of making them fall in love with.
True that Shailender. This is simple but an amazing desert.
This is one delicious dessert!! i have made it sometimes back, love how you have presented it!! Looks stunning!!! That design is fabulous!!!!
Thank you Priya.
That is a creamy and delicious Middle eastern dessert. Love the way you served it – looks so inviting and tempting.
Thank you Pavani.
So creamy and beautiful looking dessert. i am sure I will pass this on to my friends when they are prepping for Eid. They willlove the patterning and teh layering. I am sure I will give it a go as well. Yumm.
So nice of you Seema. I am glad that you liked it. Thank you heaps.
This looks so good. I also got to know about this dessert last year only during Ramadan and since then I was thinking of making it at home. Now, you have inspired me to try it. I will refer your recipe when I try.
Thank you Vandana. Yes this recipe is alt for Ramadan. Please do try this.
Have heard about this simple dessert a lot, but never made it.. looks and sounds so delicious with all the flavours. Shall make it soon.
It’s a must try easy recipe Swati. Thank you for stopping by.
Creamy and interesting dessert. I never heard of this before, but it looks so inviting and delicious.
Thank you Uma
Oh my! This looks super delish and gorgeous, Lata! A perfect and healthy treat for the sweet lovers
Indeed a treat foe sweet lovers Anshu. Thank you.
I remember making it once for the blog and we loved it. It looks so beautiful
Thank you Sapna.
Love this traditional dessert from middle east.
The clicks are so delicious in look, will make some soon Lata.
super easy still yum !
Thank you Sasmita.
This simple and refreshing dessert sounds so delicious, love it with rose and pistachio, a lovely combo.
Thank you Jagruti.
This looks super delicious, perfect time to make it with the temperature soaring here. Yummy dessert.
Thanks Jayashree it indeed is apt for Summer season.
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