9 CLASSIC IFTAR DESSERTS TO ADD SWEETNESS TO YOUR EVENING
Kunafah is a traditional dessert originating from the Middle East. This sweet delicacy is prepared with speaking fine semolina dough in sugar-based syrup. The dessert isthen layered with cheese, or with ingredients such as cream and nuts and is one of the beloved desserts across the world.
Credit iStock
Baklava, a pastry from the Middle East, this dessert is made up of layers of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup made with honey, lemon and cinnamon.
Credit iStock
A Persian dessert, sholeh zard is a rice pudding prepared with three Ingredients: saffron, cardamom, and rosewater. The dessert can sometimes be garnished with cardamom for increasing the flavour.
Credit iStock
Lapis Legit, also known as Indonesian Layer Cake, is a rich dessert originating from Indonesia. And an interesting fact about the dessert- the cake consists of 18 to 30 separately baked layers of egg yolks, sugar, flour, butter, and spices such as cardamom, mace, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon.
Credit iStock
An Arabian dessert, qatayef is usually filled with cheese or nuts such as walnuts, almonds, pistachios, or hazelnuts. The biggest qatayef was made in Bethlehem, currently holding a record with a weight of 104 kg and 3 m in diameter.
Credit iStock
Prepared with ingredients like semolina, flour, sugar, rose water, ghee, dates, cinnamon and walnuts, maamoul is a traditional Middle Eastern dessert cookie popular in nations like Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and others.
Credit iStock
A classic Greek and Turkish dessert, revani is a semolina cake soaked in a sweet syrup, often flavoured with vanilla, lemon or orange zest, and sometimes garnished with nuts such as almonds or pistachios.
Credit iStock
Originating from Persia and later travelling to Bosnia, tufahija is a dessert prepared from apples. It is simmered in water and sugar, stuffed with an almond or walnut cream filling, then shortly baked and soaked in sugar syrup.
Credit iStock
Invented by a man named Bekir Affendi, who came to Istanbul in 1777 from Anatolia, lokum is a sugar cube which is flavoured with rose water, lemon, or mint. Other ingredients like cinnamon, dates, hazelnuts, or walnuts are also used.
Credit iStock
These 4 Indians will go in space via ISRO's Gaganyaan spacecraft: Check out the names and pics