Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, honeycomb bread/khaliat nahal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Khaliat al Nahal (known by many as Khaliat Nahal) simply means Bee's Hive. This is due to the bread's resemblance to a honeycomb and for the sweet, honey-flavored topping it's glazed with. It's a 'softer_than_cotton' type of bread, with some cheese filling in every bun, and a sweet glaze on top. Yemen sweets and bread Yemeni honey is an important delicacy which one will find in most desserts, like today's Khaliyat Nahal honeycomb and cheese bread recipe, Yemeni honey cake, Yemeni bread with honey, and the Yemeni bint al sahn recipe.
Honeycomb bread/khaliat nahal is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Honeycomb bread/khaliat nahal is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have honeycomb bread/khaliat nahal using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Honeycomb bread/khaliat nahal:
- Take For the dough
- Make ready 2 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 3/4 cup warm milk
- Prepare 3 tbls powdered milk (optional)
- Make ready 1 large egg
- Prepare 3 tbls vegetable oil
- Get 3 tbls melted butter
- Get 2 tsp yeast (sachet type is fine)
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Get Some beaten egg for an egg wash before baking
- Prepare Enough water for kneading (add water at the end to avoid having liquidy dough)
- Take Cream cheese to fill in dough balls
- Prepare For the honey syrup
- Make ready 3/4 cup water
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 1 tbls honey
- Get 1 couple of saffron strands
- Prepare 1-2 squeezes lemon juice
Khaliat nahal / Honeycomb Bread is a popular Arabic bread/middle eastern delicacy which is soft,buttery cheese-filled bread/rolls soaked in a sugar syrup that served as a sweet dish particularly suitable for Iftar. Bite sized stuffed buns that are arranged to look like a "Bee's Hive" hence known as Honeycomb Bread or Khaliat al Nahal Khaliat al Nahal is a Middle Eastern bread. In the Muslim communities, I believe Khaliat al Nahal is made during the fasting period of Ramadan. Khaliat al Nahal (known by many as Khaliat Nahal) simply means Bee's Hive.
Instructions to make Honeycomb bread/khaliat nahal:
- Prepare the honey syrup by mixing all ingredients in a heavy saucepan over medium high heat
- Once sugar is dissolved, increase to high heat until it begins to boil
- Reduce heat to medium low and simmer until syrup just starts to thicken. Be careful not to let it over cook and become too thick.
- For the dough, add dry ingredients and mix well, then add the wet ingredients (make sure water is the last ingredient to add in, as you are likely not going to use alot of it)
- Mix to form a dough and knead until dough is soft
- Allow dough to rise until doubled in size
- Once dough has risen, start filling the dough by pulling tiny pieces of dough balls, filling with some cream cheese. These ingredients give me about 40 tiny balls, I prefer to have the dough thin as it will rise again before baking and I prefer a less doughy but more cheesy ball 😉
- Arrange the dough balls in a circular oven safe dish starting from the centre- this is to make a honeycomb design
- Allow the prepared dough to rise for about 45 mins to an hour, brush the top with the egg wash.
- Bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and immediately pour over the cooled honey syrup (be sure to hear out for the sizzle that the syrup makes when its poured 🤤)
- Allow to cool before serving
In the Muslim communities, I believe Khaliat al Nahal is made during the fasting period of Ramadan. Khaliat al Nahal (known by many as Khaliat Nahal) simply means Bee's Hive. This is due to the bread's resemblance to a honeycomb and for the sweet, honey-flavoured topping it's glazed with. It's a 'softer_than_cotton' type of bread, with some cheese filling in every bun, and a sweet glaze on top. Khaliat Nahal means Bee's Hive in Arabic hence these buns are baked close to each other in round pan to form a honeycomb-like pattern.
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