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Middle Eastern desserts

15 recipes that prove there's more to Middle Eastern sweets than baklava.
Middle Eastern desserts

The Middle East has a reputation for wafer-thin layered pastries drenched in sticky, fragrant syrups and filled with nuts and it’s easy to see why. But the region also has other sweet delights to offer. Take milk pudding with labne, apricot and Turkish fairy floss, for example, or fig ataif with orange blossom syrup or pistachio doughnuts with rosewater glaze, all of which feature in this collection of modern Middle Eastern desserts that goes well beyond baklava.

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Chocolate mousse tart with pomegranates and pine nuts

Turkish-delight doughnuts

Semolina custard in kataifi with wild figs and Turkish apricots

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Date puddings with sesame ice-cream and salted caramel

Orange-blossom yoghurt with poached rhubarb

Poached pumpkin with labne and walnut praline

Middle Eastern fruit cakes with orange-blossom meringue

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Orange caramel sticky doughnuts

Sour cherry sorbet

Watermelon with rosewater, labne, mint and pomegranate molasses

Persian nougat glacé

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Pistachio doughnuts with rosewater glaze

Fig ataif with orange-blossom syrup

Persian love cake

Milk pudding with labne, apricot and Turkish fairy floss

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