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 (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine) and Egypt, it is called mahalabiyeh or mahalabia.