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Meghli
Lebanese rice-flour pudding scented with cinnamon and caraway and topped with coconut, nuts and raisins.
About Meghli
Meghli is a Lebanese rice-flour pudding traditionally prepared to celebrate a newborn and also enjoyed at Christmas. This profile follows Hadia Zebib's cinnamon-and-caraway family version with its full nut-and-coconut garnish.
Rice flour gives the pudding a mild base for warm cinnamon and earthy caraway. Sugar softens the spices, while coconut, raisins and four nuts add sweet, toasted and buttery contrasts.
The chilled pudding is smooth, glossy and moderately thick, with a warm brown colour from the spices. A pale coconut layer and colourful almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, pistachios and raisins create a crisp, abundant topping.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Almond, Walnut, Pine nut, Pistachio.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Meghli
Lebanese Cinnamon-and-Caraway Meghli.
- Rice flourSmooth pudding base
- Granulated sugarSweetness
- Ground carawayEarthy spice
- Ground cinnamonWarm spice and brown colour
- WaterPudding liquid
- Unsweetened desiccated coconutSweet-textured garnish
- Blanched almondsCrunchy garnish
- Walnut halvesRich nutty garnish
- Pine nutsButtery garnish
- Raw shelled pistachiosGreen nutty garnish
- Golden raisinsChewy fruit sweetness
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Rice flour:
- Granulated sugar:
- Ground caraway:
- Ground cinnamon:
- Water:
- Unsweetened desiccated coconut:
- Blanched almonds:
- Walnut halves:
- Pine nuts:
- Raw shelled pistachios:
- Golden raisins: . The source permits black or golden raisins; this profile fixes the golden-raisin branch
Origins & food traditions
Lebanese cook and author Hadia Zebib identifies meghli as a classic Lebanese spiced rice pudding for newborn celebrations and supplies the complete rice-flour, cinnamon-and-caraway recipe with traditional coconut, nut and raisin garnish used here.
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Lebanese Cuisine
- Levantine Cuisine
- Lebanese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Palestinian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Levantine cuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.