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Lebanese dessert recipes

7 Lebanese dessert recipes, in a suggested order.

These are the 7 Lebanese recipes filed under desserts: 7 of the 583 desserts on the site, and 7 of its 52 Lebanese recipes. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 6, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 3 easy, 3 medium and 1 hard.

As written, 7 are vegetarian, 1 vegan, 2 gluten-free and 1 dairy-free.

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Lebanese dessert recipes — all 7 recipes

Maamoul
Lebanese
Prep
50m
Cook
20m
Serves
20
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Maamoul

Semolina shortbread moulded around dates, walnuts or pistachios, pressed in a carved wooden mould and baked pale…

10 hr+ · Medium
Atayef Asafiri
Lebanese
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Atayef Asafiri

Little pancakes cooked on one side only, folded round thick cream and left open at one end so the pistachio shows…

85 min+ · Medium
Halawet el Jibn
Lebanese
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Halawet el Jibn

A stretchy semolina and cheese dough rolled around cream and soaked in syrup. Somewhere between a pastry and a sweet…

85 min · Hard
Layali Lubnan
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Layali Lubnan

Lebanese nights: a semolina layer, a thick cream layer, syrup and nuts. Assembled in a dish and cut into squares…

3.5 hr · Easy
Meghli
Lebanese
Prep
15m
Cook
45m
Serves
8
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Meghli

A dark spiced rice pudding made to celebrate a birth, soaked in caraway, anise and cinnamon and buried under soaked…

9 hr+ · Easy
Mouhalabieh
Lebanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Mouhalabieh

Milk set with cornflour, perfumed with rose and orange blossom, and scattered with pistachio. Barely sweet, eaten…

3.5 hr · Easy
Znoud el Sit
Lebanese
Prep
30m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Znoud el Sit

Filo fingers filled with thick cream, fried and dropped straight into cold syrup. The name means "the lady's upper…

50 min · Medium