Sweet Dishes for Eid

Bread Pudding:

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2 cups whole milk

1/4 cup butter

2/3 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 cups bread, torn into small pieces

1/2 cup raisins

Directions:

Boil milk and add butter, stirring until it melts. Cool to lukewarm and then add sugar, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla extract. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for 1 minute. Slowly add the milk mixture.

Place bread in a lightly greased oven prove dish, sprinkle with raisins and pour batter on top.

Finally, Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 to 50 minutes or until set. For best taste, serve warm.

Baklavah

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A dish mainly related to the Arab cuisine basically hails from Turkey. It seems rather intricate in making but the method is not all that difficult, and fruits of the labor are definitely, sweet, rich and savory.

The making of the dessert becomes even simpler if prepared phyllo pastry is used instead of going from scratch. All Recipes have a brilliant and easy recipe for baklava. Hereit is!

Rice Pudding

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Rice pudding is probably the only pudding made in all the continents with an amazing amount of variations. It is called rice pudding in the English speaking world, kheer in Urdu and Hindi, Bubur Sumsum in Indonesian, Dudhapak in Gujarati, Riz bi haleeb or ruz bil-laban in Arabic,  Shir-berenj and Shola-e-zard in the Central Asian region, Budino di Riso, Italian and Riz au lait in French. And these are just a handful of names.

So, if any dessert, this should be the top most during the celebrations of Eid!

Here is the English or European way of cooking it.

This is how the Arabs do it.

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In India and Pakistan, the most common way of cooking the rice pudding or Kheer can be learnt here.

And this is how Bubur Sumsum is made in Indonesia.

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