Burbara – Wheat pudding
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| Servings | Prep Time |
| 15persons | 7minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 90minutes |
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Burbara – Wheat pudding
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Ingredients
- 250gram wheat peeled
- 1tbsp grinded fennel seeds
- Tbsp crushed anise
- Teaspoon cinnamon
- Half teaspoon nutmeg
- 1cup Sugar
- halfcup Raisins
- 60gram dried apricot
- 60gram walnut
- halfcup peeled almonds
- halfcup pomegranate
- 2liters Water
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Instructions
- Soak the peeled wheat in water for 12 hours. (a day before)
- Add the two liters of water in large pot and let it boil.
- Rinse the soaked peeled wheat and add it to the boiling water.
- Keep it on high heat until boiling then lower heat till well cooked.
- Add the sugar, anise, nutmeg, cinnamon, dried apricot, raisins and peeled almond.
- Stir well and keep it on low heat for 20 minutes to thicken.
- Poor it in small soup bowl and decorate its top with walnut and pomegranate.
Recipe Notes
Contributor: Rana Mouammar, 75
Place: Battir – Bethlehem
Personal Background:
| Recipe’s Personal Background | How did you learn this recipe? | I learned it from my mother. |
| Is there some memory/historical event connected to this recipe? | It is thought to bring good luck. | |
| Personal reference to tradition transmitted by relatives (preparing together, sharing, eating together etc.)? | No. | |
| Mediterranean Background | Any tradition this receipe is connected to? If yes, which one? Can you describe it? | No. |
| Any Festivity this recipe is connected to? If yes, which one? Can you describe it? | It is connected to Barbara holiday. | |
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Is your recipe connected to the territory you live in? Is it strictly linked to the specificity of the agricultural environment? | No. | |
| Season (season this food is linked to) | It is produced and consumed during the winter. |
| Ingredient | Nutritional Importance | Health Benefits |
| Peeled Wheat | 1 cup of peeled wheat provides: • 651 calories • 136.7 g carbohydrates • 4.74 total fat • 26.27 g protein |
Wheat is rich in catalytic elements, mineral salts, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, arsenic, silicon, manganese, zinc, iodide, copper, vitamin B, and vitamin E. This wealth of nutrients is why wheat is often used as a cultural base or foundation of nourishment. Issues like anemia, mineral deficiencies, gallstones, breast cancer, chronic inflammation, obesity, asthenia, tuberculosis, pregnancy problems and breastfeeding problems are quickly improved by consuming whole wheat. Wheat is also recommended to treat sterility |
| Walnuts | ¼ cup of walnut halves and pieces provide: • 200 calories • 4 g carbohydrates • 2 g dietary fiber • 20 g total fat • 2 g saturated fat • 17.5 g unsaturated fat • 0 mg cholesterol • 5 g protein |
Walnuts may help reduce not only the risk of prostate cancer, but breast cancer as well. Walnuts contain the amino acid l-arginine, which offers multiple vascular benefits to people with heart disease, or those who have increased risk for heart disease due to multiple cardiac risk factors. Walnuts contain antioxidants that are so powerful at free-radical scavenging that researchers called them “remarkable,”7 and research has shown that walnut polyphenols may help prevent chemically-induced liver damage |
| Almonds | 12 almonds provide: • 85 calories • 3 g carbohydrates • 2 g dietary fibers • 7.5 g total fat • 0 mg cholesterol • 3 g Protein |
Almonds are high in monounsaturated fats, the same type of health-promoting fats as are found in olive oil, which have been associated with reduced risk of heart disease. In addition to their cholesterol-lowering effects, almonds’ ability to reduce heart disease risk may also be partly due to the antioxidant action of the vitamin E found in the almonds, as well as to the LDL-lowering effect of almonds’ monounsaturated fats. (LDL is the form of cholesterol that has been linked to atherosclerosis and heart disease). |
| Raisins | ¼ cup raisins provides: • 120 calories • 32 g carbohydrates • 1 g dietary fibers • 0 g total fat • 1 g protein |
Raisins, like dried apricots, figs, and prunes, are dense sources of energy, vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants. Additionally, they are packed with several health benefiting poly phenolics anti-oxidants, dietary fiber, and other phyto-nutrients. |
| Dried apricots | 6 pieces of dried apricots provide: • 100 calories • 29 g carbohydrates • 4 g dietary fibers • 0 g fat • 1 g protein |
Dried apricots, like raisins, figs, and prunes, are dense sources of energy, vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants. Additionally, they are packed with several health benefiting poly phenolics anti-oxidants, dietary fiber, and other phyto-nutrients. |
| Pomegranate | 1 pomegranate provides: • 105 calories • 26.44 g carbohydrates • 7 g dietary fiber • 0.46 g total fat • 1.46 g protein |
Pomegranates have been used for medicinal purposes for millennia. Packed with powerful antioxidants and vitamins, Pomegranate helps stomach upsets, menopausal hot flashes, hemorrhoids, conjunctivitis, osteoarthritis, lowers blood pressure, stimulates the immune system, wards off the flu, reduces inflammation, reduces risk of heart disease and lowers cholesterol. |
| Additional information | |
| Is it suggested to eat this meal if you suffer from some disease? If yes, for which one? | – |
| What is the primary base with which your food is prepared? Is this a derivative of oil or another base? | It is based on grains. |
| What nutrition related illnesses or deficiencies are common in your area? Are there holistic or nutrition based remedies connected to these aliments? | |
