balaleet
Qatar · Middle East and North Africa
Balaleet combines sweetened vermicelli with eggs and is eaten for breakfast in Qatar. The Captain Chef’s recipe fries half the noodles in oil until golden before adding the rest and boiling them in water. The drained noodles return to the pan with butter or ghee, sugar, spices and saffron steeped in rosewater.[1]
The eggs are seasoned with cardamom, salt and pepper, with saffron optional. They are cooked as an omelette or scrambled eggs and placed over the noodles on a serving platter.[1]
References
Sources checked:
- Balaleet: ingredients and method — The Captain Chef
image credit
- creator:
- Mohamed Toorani
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Copied from existing local resized Commons image for shared-dish review; no content edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
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- OpenAI API generated audio
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- AI-generated voice audio.