Halawet el Jibn
Halawet El Jibn | |
| Type | Dessert |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Hama or Homs (Most sources agree on Hama) |
| Associated cuisine | Levantine cuisine (especially Syria& Lebanon ) |
| Serving temperature | Room temperature |
| Main ingredients | Semolina, Akkawi cheese, sugar, qishta, pistachio, rose water |
Halawet el-jibn (Arabic: حلاوة الجبن / Ḥalāwat al-jibn) (cheese sweet) is a Levantine dessert made of a semolina and cheese dough, filled with qishta.[1] Its origins are somewhere from central Syria.[2][3] It is found in other regions in the Levant and the Middle East notably Tripoli, Lebanon,[4] and has been brought by Syrian immigrants to other countries such as Türkiye and Germany.[5][6]
Ingredients
This dessert is primarily made of a semolina and cheese dough (containing traditionally Akkawi or Majdoola cheese[7], but also mozzarella or some mix of cheeses), a sugar syrup locally called ʾaṭər (Levantine Arabic: قَطْر), and orange flower water or rose water.[8] It is normally filled with cream or clotted cream (Levantine Arabic: قشطة, romanized: ʼəshṭa[1][8]) and decorated with pistachio.[8] Rose petal jam can be used as a garnish as well.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b Samira (2021-10-25). "Ashta". Alphafoodie. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
- ^ "Berlin now 'home sweet home' for Syrian pastry chefs". The Express Tribune. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- ^ "طريقة حلاوة الجبن الطرابلسية بالوصفة الأصلية خطوة بخطوة بالصور". honna.elwatannews.com. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
- ^ Ibrahim, Omar (2016-03-04). "Lebanon's Tripoli, capital of oriental delicacies". The Arab weekly. Archived from the original on 2025-04-18. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ Clark, Melissa (2016-01-19). "Turkish Sweets Are the Essence of a Nation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
- ^ Helou, Anissa (20 June 2013). Levant: Recipes and memories from the Middle East. HarperCollins UK. ISBN 9780007448623.
- ^ a b "Halawet el-jeben | Traditional Cheese Dessert From Hama | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ^ a b c "Salloura, an Epic of Sweets: Chap. 4, Betrayal". Culinary Backstreets. 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-10-24.