Ashura Pudding
This recipe is Ashura pot/Ashura pudding, made with wheat, beans, chickpeas, and fava beans, then sweetened with date molasses or sugar and flavored with fennel and anise. Dried fruits such as apricots and raisins are added, and it is served garnished with nuts, coconut, and pomegranate. The video contains no clear spoken explanation, so no additional cooking steps or details are available.
A pudding or sweet grain dessert associated with Ashura, made with mixed grains and legumes.
Like a hearty sweet pudding or porridge dessert.
Ingredients
- 1 kg (5 cups) Wheat
- 2 cups Dried beans
- 2 cups Dried chickpeas
- 2 cups Boiled fava beans
- for boiling/enough to cover Water
- ¼ tablespoon Bicarbonate of soda
- ¼ kg (250 g) Dried apricots
- ¼ kg Raisins
- instead of water, as desired Milk
- ½ kg (2 cups) Date molasses
- instead of molasses Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Fennel
- 1 tablespoon Anise
- ½ litre Cold water
- 3 tablespoons Cornstarch
- a pinch Ground spice mix (anise + fennel)
- for garnish Coconut
- for garnish Pomegranate
- for garnish Walnuts
- any type Nuts
- for garnish Black raisins
- for garnish Dried apricots