Qamar El Din - is this just an Egypt thing?
During Ramadan time in Egypt, at every street corner you can find a "Ramadan stand" - I dont know if these things have a real name in Arabic, but they are basically market stalls set up just before Ramadan starts, selling all the Ramadan fundamentals - decorations, lamps, dried fruit and nuts, sweets - and my personal favourite - Qamar El Din paste.
Qamar El Din (pronounced "Amr-e-din" by Egyptians) is sheets of dried Apricot paste - quite similar to what we would call fruit roll-ups in Australia. You add these sheets to boiling water, mix it all up and the sheets dissolve and turn the water into a think, bright orange Apricot mixture.
Cool that bad-boy down and you've got yourself a delicious Apricot juice kind of drink, really refeshing and nourishing around Iftar time. I made a batch of it the other night and it was so good I am thinking of stocking up on Qamar El Din paste for the rest of the year.
Is this just an Egypt thing, are a Blogging Ramadan'ers all over the world enjoying this stuff as well?
Qamar El Din (pronounced "Amr-e-din" by Egyptians) is sheets of dried Apricot paste - quite similar to what we would call fruit roll-ups in Australia. You add these sheets to boiling water, mix it all up and the sheets dissolve and turn the water into a think, bright orange Apricot mixture.
Cool that bad-boy down and you've got yourself a delicious Apricot juice kind of drink, really refeshing and nourishing around Iftar time. I made a batch of it the other night and it was so good I am thinking of stocking up on Qamar El Din paste for the rest of the year.
Is this just an Egypt thing, are a Blogging Ramadan'ers all over the world enjoying this stuff as well?
6 Comments:
We have none of that in Bosnia and Herzegovina, though it sounds delicious. Send some over.
We have food stalls everywhere - which start cooking and selling atleast 2 hours before Iftar - and are sold out about 5 minutes before it, and have been the scene of many a scuffle. :P
In Singapore we have a Ramadan bazaars down at the Malay district (Geylang Serai) that sells food and other household items for a whole month. People usually go here for iftar and then shop around for stuff to buy for Hari Raya / Eid Fitr / Idul Fitri(including decorations and new clothes).
But I've never heard of the Qamar El Din paste... sounds really delicious. The typical Ramadan food is dates, I think this is the same everywhere??
OOO- love that stuff.
Yum
We don't have that in Indonesia,
but there are lots of dishes & drink that only around during ramadan for iftar.
such as kolak (usually made of banana, coconut milk and brown sugar), or "timun suri" punch (geez i need to find out how it called in english).
Well ya I think all Arab countries enjoy this delightful drink!
I live in Saudi Arabia, and it's an essential part of our meal !
Also the rest of the gulf countries enjoy "qamar el din" at iftar !
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