Libya Fruit Dessert Halawah Bil-fawaaki

by Olga Drozd

Rating: 4 ★

Libya Fruit Dessert Halawah Bil-fawaaki
Ingredients
  • • Libya: Fruit Dessert: Halawah bil-Fawaaki
  • • Serves 8.
  • • In North Africa, honey is used much more than in the Middle East. During Ramadan, the enticing sweets are enhanced by being soaked in a honey syrup or having honey as a main ingredient.
  • • 2 large plums, diced
  • • 1 large apple, peeled, cored, and diced
  • • 2 medium peaches, diced
  • • 1 cup diced cantaloupe
  • • 1/4 cup raisins
  • • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • • 1/2 cup honey, melted
  • • 3 tablespoons butter, melted
  • • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • • 1/2 cup couscous
  • • 2 tablespoons crushed pistachios
Instructions
  1. Combine, plums, apple, peaches, cantaloupe, raisins, lemon juice, and honey in a saucepan; then cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Add butter, cinnamon and couscous. Cook over low heat, stirring often, until couscous is done.
  2. Transfer to a serving bowl and allow to cool for 1 hour. sprinkle with pistachios just before serving.