Course | Pudding |
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Place of origin | Iran (Ancient Persia) |
Region or state | Middle East |
Associated cuisine | Iranian cuisine, Levantine cuisine |
Serving temperature | Cold |
Main ingredients | Rice flour, milk or almond milk, sugar |
Muhallebi (Persian: مهلبی، محالبی, Arabic: مهلبية, French: mouhallabié) is a milk pudding commonly made with rice, sugar, milk and either rice flour, starch or semolina,[1] popular as a dessert in the Middle East. While the dessert is called muhallebi in Turkey and Iraq, in the Levant and Egypt, it is called mahalabiyeh or mahalabia.