🇹🇳 Tunisia cuisine · #14

Assidat Zgougou

Name: Assidat Zgougou
Total time: 180 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Tunisia
Ingredients: 500 g ground Aleppo pine seeds (zgougou); 150 g flour; 200 g sugar; 2 litres water; cream: 1 litre milk, 4 egg yolks, 100 g sugar, 60 g cornflour; nuts, pistachios and sprinkles to decorate

Time180 min

Serves8

Ingredients6

A dark cream of Aleppo pine seeds topped with white custard and decorated with nuts — Tunisia's Mawlid dessert.

Ingredients

500 g ground Aleppo pine seeds (zgougou)
150 g flour
200 g sugar
2 litres water
cream: 1 litre milk, 4 egg yolks, 100 g sugar, 60 g cornflour
nuts, pistachios and sprinkles to decorate

Method

Soak the zgougou in the water and strain through a fine sieve to get a dark liquid.
Add flour and sugar and cook gently, stirring constantly, until thick (about an hour).
Pour into cups and cool.
Make the custard by cooking milk, yolks, sugar and cornflour until thick.
Top the zgougou with custard and decorate with nuts.

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