Awamat Recipe

Awamat also awama is a famous dessert in the Arab Coutries specially in Lebanaon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan. Below is an easy awamat recipe.

Ingredients:

• 8 cups pastry flour
• 1 qt. yougurt
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1 1/2 cups olive oil
• Sugar syrup
  

Preparation:

• Sift flour and mix with yougurt and soda. Knead well together. Heat olive oil until almost smoking. Drop dough by the teaspoonful into hot oil. Fry only a few at a time. They quickly rise to the surface, brown, and are ready to be skimmed out of the fat.

• Drain on absorbent paper. When all are fried, dip a few at a time in thin syrup. Serve the hot or cold.