🇸🇾 Syria cuisine · #18

Booza (Mastic Ice Cream)

Booza (Mastic Ice Cream)
Time60 min
Serves8
Ingredients7

Stretchy ice cream made with mastic and salep, pounded with wooden pestles and covered in pistachios — famous in the old souks of Damascus.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Mix salep with sugar and whisk into cold milk.
  2. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until thick.
  3. Add mastic, cream and rose water and cool.
  4. Freeze, beating every hour or churning in a machine; pound before serving and coat with pistachios.