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Nabulsi Tamriyeh

Published: Sep 10, 2016 · Modified: Jul 3, 2020 by Amira · This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.

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Light as a feather, crunchy as a newly fallen leaf in the fall, stuffed with delicious semolina pudding and sprinkled with icing sugar. Tamreyah is a traditional Palestinian dessert, to be specific it is a Nabulsi dessert, that is a delight to your eyes and taste buds. An Arabic dessert at its best.

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What you'll need

  • All purpose flour, to make the dough. We'll need about 2 ¼ cups.
  • Salt, water and oil to make the dough and cover it after it is done.
  • For the semolina pudding filling we will need semolina, sugar and water.

How to make Tamriyeh

Tamriyeh step by step
  1. Mix flour and salt in your mixer bowl and gradually add water until the dough gets separated from the sides of the bowl.
  2. Keep kneading until you get a nice elastic dough.
  3. Divide the dough into 6 equal parts.
  4. Place the dough pieces in a deep bowl, add enough oil to cover and let it rest for at least 4 hours, the more the better.
  5. Meanwhile make the filling by adding all the ingredients on a medium heat until it thickens. Pour into a 13X9 pan and refrigerate until ready to use.
Tamriyeh step by step
  1. When the dough is ready take one ball roll it thin, then cut into 4 equal parts. Take one square and place it in the center of one part of the dough, press lightly to flatten a bit.
  2. Fold the dough over the filling to form a square as shown above from 2-5.
  3. Heat oil and fry until all sides are golden brown.

Nabulsi Tamriyeh

I've never heard or had Nabulsi Tamriya before, but it sounded so doable and easy to make for my guests one shiny day. It reminded me of a kind of sweet feteer that is stuffed with pudding and lots of nuts, we used to have in our summer visits to Ras El Barr back in Egypt.

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Tamryieh is a very traditional dessert during the holy month of Ramadan, so I am surprised that I did not hear about it or have it before.

The idea is so easy and clever, you make a dough and stretch it so thin like we do when we make feteer, then instead of nesting the dough layers, you just stuff it with a creamy, firm semolina filling, then deep fried, sprinkle it with some sugar and enjoy when it is hot. This dessert has to be hot, this is its prime time.

A close up of food on a plate, with sugar powdered cookies

I've made a big batch, stuffed it and stored it in a single layer on a greased Pyrex on the fridge, we enjoyed this over the course of 5 days. Each day I pull out some and fry then serve immediately. I've served it to my family and my friends, and let me tell you, I've seen expressions that I liked on their faces.

All my three kids loved it specially my oldest who is a pudding lover, it was really hard to keep his hands away from it, and it deserves the calories... really.

A close up of food on a plate, with sugar powdered cookies

I highly recommend this dessert for your next culinary adventure, hope you'll enjoy making and eating like we did.... See you on the next recipe. Enjoy!!

A close up of food on a plate, with sugar powdered cookies

Nabulsi Tamryieh

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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Middle East, Palestinian
Author: Amira

Ingredients

For the dough

  • 2 ¼ cup AP. flour.
  • Pinch of salt.
  • ¾ cup water.
  • Oil to cover the dough and we'll use it later for frying.

For the filling

  • 1 ½ cup semolina.
  • 1 ½ cup sugar.
  • 6 cup water.

optional

  • ½ tablespoon orange blossom water. OR
  • 10 mastic crushed.

For garnishing

  • Confectioners sugar and crushed pistachios.

Instructions

  • Mix flour and salt in your mixer bowl and gradually add water until the dough gets separated from the sides of the bowl.
  • Keep kneading until you get a nice elastic dough.
  • Divide the dough into 6 equal parts.
  • Place the dough pieces in a deep bowl, add enough oil to cover and let it rest for at least 4 hours, the more the better.
  • Meanwhile make the filling by adding all the ingredients on a medium heat until it thickens.
  • Pour into a 13X9 pan and refrigerate until ready to use.
  • When the dough is ready take one ball roll it thin, then cut into 4 equal parts.
  • Take the filling out of the fridge and cut into 24 equal squares.
  • Take one square and place it in the center of one part of the dough, press lightly to flatten a bit.
  • Fold the dough over the filling to form a square as shown below.
  • Heat oil and fry until all sides are golden brown.
  • Sprinkle top with powdered sugar and pistachios.Serve immediately.

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  1. Jayaleela

    August 01, 2018 at 5:33 pm

    5 stars
    we have a similar sweet in india where it is sserved at festivals

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    • Amira

      August 02, 2018 at 10:38 am

      This is new to me Jayaleela, I am excited to know that. What's it called there?

      Reply
  2. Coffee and Crumpets

    September 12, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    Eid Mubarak, Amira! May you have a blessed Eid and may all your prayers be answered.
    I have many Palestinian friends...but I don't remember having this dessert. This sounds wonderful!
    In Houston, we used to frequent this Arabic bakery and this lady made everything. Her stuff is wonderful and I miss having something like that here where we can stop by when we crave kunafa, or layli lubnan or basbousa. Now, I have to make all these when I want some!
    I think she used to make these and I may have even tried them but didn't know what they were called 🙂
    They look great!

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