The Most Delicious Sudanese Desserts you’ve got to Try!

Delicious sweets are perhaps a natural temptation as only a handful of us might not get tempted upon seeing or even hearing about these heavenly blends of sugar, flavours, cream and thousands of other magical ingredients. Rest, are seen drooling upon even the mere mention of ‘something sweet’. Well if you plan to book cheap flights to Sudan, let us tell you what you can have as a solution to your tongue teasing and stomach crunching dessert cravings.

Sudanese people have an undying and possibly an uncontrollable love for sweet dishes. Most of their sweet creations make use of sugar, cream, eggs and dairy products such as milk or yoghurt in their sweet dishes while combining them with caramel, lime juice or any of the local divinely tasting fruits, to create charming sweet wonders.  The easiest sweet dish that virtually all Sudanese women know how to prepare is the Crème caramel or the Sudanese caramel custard as it is locally called.  This easy-to-make but strikingly tasting and enticingly irresistible sweet dish is an appetizing mixture of melted butter and lots of eggs blended into milk and banana or vanilla extract. This marvellous creation of flavours is as easy to prepare as it sounds. The only hitch might be that you forget to glace your pan with foil or you forget to use a non-stick pan, otherwise, it’s an effort of no more than a few minutes.

Apart from this household sweet dish that is commonly prepared in Sudan, read below for the most popularly delicious sweet dishes that you downright cannot miss whenever you get a chance to purchase cheap tickets to Africa or while you’re in Sudan.

Madeeda Hilba:

For those who have a taste for porridges and puddings, or who value the nutritional benefits of oats, are recommended to try out the Sudanese recipe of Porridge. Madeeda Hilba is the traditional sweet dish in Sudan which is usually served on auspicious or joyous moments such as weddings, festivals and Ramadan. It is prepared with flour, milk, baking soda and fenugreek which give it its distinctive taste and texture.

Shaaria:

If you want to know what the true Sudanese idea of sweets is then you should definitely try Shaaria. The unique blend of ingredients used in this dish gives a clear signal of it being a Sudanese exclusivity. Prepared from pasta nets that are first boiled and then fried to be further mixed with sesame oil, sugar, a ting of salt, finely melted butter and sultana or coconut, Shaaria has a lusciously rare taste that is soundly popular in Sudan.

Bishbosa:

When the people of Sudan are in the mood for those baking hot, soft and spongy tongue teasers, they slide the deliciously famous Bishbosa into their ovens. Bishbosa is a semolina-based cake which is soaked in lemon syrup and has a delicate touch of cinnamon to it. Although widely served on Sudanese special occasions, this extremely flavoursome cake is a famous delicacy in mostly all Middle Eastern regions. Its magically exclusive ingredients are cinnamon, lemon and vanilla.

Garaasa be Semna

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This dish has long earned the reputation of being a conventional Sudanese stoutness which dowses wheat flour, sultanas into butter and sugar to create flatbread. Garassa actually is more of a pancake than bread and is even prepared and served like usual pancakes, the only difference being the dressing and flavouring of these Gracias. These pancakes have added tastes of different fruit in them and are often glazed with the same for dressing.  However, on many occasions, you might taste these Garaasas with flavours of chopped dates instead of Sultanas.

Basta:

Yet another simple while extremely tempting and popular dish in Sudan is the Basta. Prepared with easily available ingredients such as peanut, brown sugar, butter, castor sugar, phyllo pastry and lemon juice, this is an exquisitely tasting cake that is served at many prestigious and special occasions as a symbol of gracefulness.