Umm Ali – An Eggless Bread Pudding

This post is dedicated to my friend Saro’s husband Martin, as he really appreciated this preparation. For someone who loves to cook and experiment, it is such a pleasure when their preparations are well relished. Thank you Martin :-)

Umm Ali

What attracted me to this recipe was the name. According to Wikipedia this is a national dish of Egypt. It is made with puff pastry, milk and nuts. I have used plain white bread and have also skipped the nuts in the main preparation. For the topping, I experimented and used an ingredient which gave the dish a signature flavour. Here is my take on Umm Ali

Umm Ali

Ingredients

7 slices of white bread,

1 ¾ cup of milk,

6 tbsp condensed milk,

8 tbsp sugar,

1 cup of malai or cream,

2 orange flavoured biscuits

Method

Trim the edges of the bread and cut them into four pieces.

Place them in two layers in a baking dish.

Umm Ali

Mix the milk, condensed milk and 3 tbsp sugar and boil it gently. Pour this mixture over the bread and let it soak.

Mix the malai or cream with the remaining sugar with a gentle hand. Spread this over the soaked bread.

Crush the orange flavoured biscuits over the pudding.

Umm Ali

Preheat the oven to 175^oC. Bake this for about 15 minutes. Let cool and then refrigerate.

Serve chilled.