Sad Al Hanak Recipe (Heritage Egyptian Dessert)
Sad El Hanak is a heritage Egyptian dessert made simply from flour, ghee, and sugar. Its playful name—“mouth suffer”—hints at how filling and comforting this old-world sweet truly is.
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Equipment
- Middle Sauce Pan
Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons ghee
- 10 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- ¾ cup water
- 1 teaspoon orange blossom
- 3 whole cloves , optional
- 3 cardamom pods , bruised
Instructions
- Add the ghee to a a medium saucepan, heat over medium-low heat. Once hot, add the flour gradually to the ghee, until it is well incorporated into the ghee. Stir this mixture well until you have a deep golden homogenous paste. Turn off the heat.
- Mix the water and sugar in a separate deep bowl. Whisk well until all the sugar is dissolved into the water. Let this mixture simmer for 3 minutes, add a drizzle of orange blossom and turn off the heat immediately.
- Add the water-sugar mixture into the ghee-flour paste, and keep whisking over a low heat with a wire whisk until you have a dense batter. turn off the heat and let the batter come to room temperature.
- Transfer Sad Al Hanak to a place and make shapes, using a spoon. Alternatively, shape the batter into walnut-size balls, and dredge them in different coating such as dehydrate roses, dissected coconut, crushed pistachios.
- Serve Saad Al hanak at room temperature with tea or coffee.
- Store Saad Al Hanak in an airtight container either in the fridge up to 5 days or the freezer for 1 month.