Skip to main content

Home Made Balaleet




Balaleet is a common noodles dish in the south Gulf region, it’s a mix of saltiness and sweetness in one dish together. It is served usually as a breakfast dish or as a dessert. It is very common to eat it in feasts, like Eid holidays, topped with omelet egg that will bring the saltiness flavor to your dish. This dish has cardamom and saffron, unique Arabic spices, which tickles your tongue while eating it. This salty-sweet dish won't just surprise you, it will make you addicted.

It is more lovable if you made it yourself, and shared it with your loved ones.

Balaleet with Arabic coffee via ( Source )

Let's start with the ingredients.

1.     2 cups of vermicelli
2.     2 tablespoons cooking oil
3.     ¼ cup of ghee (or a mixture of 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons cooking oil)
4.     2/3 cup sugar
5.     2 tablespoons cardamom powder
6.     2 generous pinches of saffron soaked in ½ cup rose water
7.     4 eggs beaten with ¾ teaspoon salt and a pinch of black pepper
(Balaleet – Vermicelli and Egg Omelet. 2009)
Emirates women sell her Belaleet via ( Source)

The recipe:

  •  To start your cooking, you will need a large pan to boil enough water for vermicelli.
  •  In a wide pan, put the 1/4 vermicelli and flip it over to not burn, and mix it till its start to get brown color.
  •  After the water starts to boil put the cooking oil to prevent it from sticking, and put the vermicelli, the brown and the normal one, on the boiling water.
  •  Filter it from the water when the vermicelli is a medium cook. –Don’t worry it will continue cooking because of its heat, we just prevent it from being over cooked-.
  •  While it is on a filter, now you can add the sugar and cardamom powder and saffron and mix it together so the sugar is well combined.
  •  At the same pot start cooking your egg with the ghee, make sure it has no water on it.
  • When the egg is well down put your vermicelli and leave it cover tell its completely dry.
  • And serve it immediately
  •  and top it with the egg, alongside with Arabic coffee as sweet, or you can eat it in the breakfast.


It is my mom’s recipe; I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did. I cannot wait to see your feedback after you try it.

Check out my Instagram food's lover
@AyeshaAlnaqbi 




Resources:
(n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2017, from http://www.kitchenmaestro.net/single-post/2017/01/01/Balaleet-Vermicelli-and-Egg-Omelet

Balaleet – Vermicelli and Egg Omelet. (2009, October 01). Retrieved September 16, 2017, from https://emiraticankitchen.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/balaleet-vermicelli-and-egg-omelet/


Haza, R. (2014, September 12). Fujairah Welfare Association helps low-income Emirati women in need. Retrieved September 16, 2017, from https://www.thenational.ae/uae/fujairah-welfare-association-helps-low-income-emirati-women-in-need-1.235728


Comments

  1. Heba MohammedSeptember 18, 2017 at 9:46 PM

    This is a delicious and traditional food in the UAE. Your blog is helpful for people who doesn't know how to make it and wanted to try it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hind September 18, 2017 at 9:49 PM

    clear language and its look like she followed the blog instruction .

    ReplyDelete
  3. New MomSeptember 18, 2017 at 9:53 PM

    yummy its my favourite.. your blog is great easy steps and clear.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Emirati budding -Sago

Sago is one of the often dessert, that GCC country tends to do. It is "a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings" (Sago, n.d.). As the history of the GCC country cuisine especially the United Arab Emirates, this dessert is originated from India and Southeast Asia. The uniqueness of the dish or to make it more Emirati is with the addition of their adorable flavour like saffron and rose water and some nuts to add crispness to the dessert. This dish allowed you to try a new flavour of budding which is specialised by emirates gentlemen and their ladies. This recipe is eaten either hot or cold, and it is still going to be the same flavour and by gourmet choice. Enjoy the recipe. Sago palm tree via ( source ) Sago shop that serves it cold or hot via ( Sago Cafe Instagram ) Ingredients Sago bag (400 g) socked in water ½ cup of sugar (feel free to add more or less) 2 cups of hot water
Post a Comment
Read more

Emirates cuisine

Emirates cuisine contains a combination of seas, mountains, and desert.  A long time ago, Emirates men used to hunt and fish in order to get food, and some of them were ranching. Greenery was not available that much, yet on raining weather. Even the plants were growing in Emirates were limited. Until the 1960s and 1970s, Emirates people were placing the canned pineapple, peach and apple, to show their generosity, as a side dish of their simple main dish, which mostly a rice (or bread) with meat whether it's fish or chicken or red meat. (Via (  organicfacts However, the trade with Asian and African countries makes Emirates plate brilliance. It brought a variety of different spices and ingredients. Emiratis food is generally common with saffron, turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, pepper, and salt . These ingredients are a result of the great graphic that Emirates had. When it comes to the traditional food of the country, Emirates know how to ma
Post a Comment
Read more