DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Ghraybeh
Also known as: غريبة
Pale Palestinian shortbread cookies with ghee, orange blossom water and pistachios.
About Ghraybeh
Ghraybeh are delicate Palestinian shortbread cookies associated with Eid, Christmas and Easter. Wafa Shami's orange-blossom rendition has a pale, creamy appearance and a small pistachio topping.
Ghee gives the cookies a rich buttery flavour, while powdered sugar and wheat flour form their fine, tender crumb. Orange blossom water adds a floral note. Chopped roasted almonds are an optional addition to the dough.
The small round cookies have a gently flattened shape with a nut in the centre. Their soft, crumbly texture makes each bite melt readily in the mouth.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten), Pistachio.
Optional additions: Almond.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ghraybeh
Wafa Shami's Palestinian orange-blossom ghraybeh.
- Unsalted butter for gheeCooking medium
- Fine bulgurCooking medium
- Confectioner sugarSweetener
- All-purpose wheat flourBase
- Orange blossom waterAromatic
- Raw shelled pistachiosTopping
- Chopped roasted almondsFilling · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Unsalted butter for ghee: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Full prescribed own ghee52, dairy butter expanded instead of opaque prepared ghee. Actual bulgur straining60 is no allergen absence assurance.
- Fine bulgur: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Own ghee53/57–60 cooking/contact grain explicitly retained, though strained from finished ghee; broad bulgur candidate, exact wheat cultivar unprovided.
- Confectioner sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual49/110 explicit AP wheat, added dough flour119 consolidated.
- Orange blossom water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact card111/118 over prose rose-water alternative50 or vanilla substitute64.
- Raw shelled pistachios: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Pistachio source-confirmed. Actual51/112/122 pistachio-topped round rendition, no pine-nut/almond topping alternative62 union.
- Chopped roasted almonds (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed. Actual63 individually offered same-dough addition, first named almond over hazelnut/pistachio alternatives, optional.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Palestine
- PalestineCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Palestinian Cuisine
- Palestinian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.