Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sahlab. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A tasty drink to warm up your winter evenings! Salep, also spelled sahlep or sahlab, is a flour made from the tubers of the orchid genus Orchis (including species Orchis mascula and Orchis militaris). These tubers contain a nutritious, starchy polysaccharide called glucomannan.
Sahlab is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Sahlab is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have sahlab using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sahlab:
- Prepare milk
- Get sugar
- Make ready salep powder
- Take rosewater
- Make ready cinnamon
Kind of how we drink hot chocolate in winter. Sometimes other nuts and raisins are incorporated along with rose water or orange blossom to give it a unique flavor. The powder sahlab is like magic, it turns your milk and cream into a yummy thick and nutritious. Sahlab, salep or sohlob is a winter drink widely consumed in Egypt.
Instructions to make Sahlab:
- Put 3 cups of milk and the sugar in a pot over medium heat. Stir well until sugar is dissolved.
- Dissolve the salep powder in 1 cup of milk. Pour it gradually into the pot while continuously stirring. Bring to a boil.
- As soon as the mixture thickens and becomes sticky, lower the heat and add the rose water.
- Remove from heat and pour the sahlab in glass bowls. Sprinkle with cinnamon powder and serve hot.
This drink has a unique aroma linked to the orchid flour that is used to make it. The orchid flour, obtained by grinding orchid tubers, is very rare nowadays and gives the sahlab this typical and fragrant taste. Sahlab comes in the form of thick white cream and is halfway between a pudding and a custard. Sahlab synonyms, Sahlab pronunciation, Sahlab translation, English dictionary definition of Sahlab. n. A starchy meal ground from the dried roots of various orchids chiefly of the genus Orchis, used for food and formerly as medicine.
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