{"id":8929,"date":"2019-06-22T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2021-05-01T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:31:03","slug":"sellou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=8929","title":{"rendered":"Sellou"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSince food tour season is in full flower and there are some new businesses in the neighborhood, I decided to revamp my Middle Eastern Bay Ridge ethnojunket<\/a>. Did you know that Bay Ridge and Beirut are cognates? Just kidding.<\/p>\n

One of the treats along the route is sellou (\u0633\u0644\u0651\u0648, aka sfouf or zmita), a unique unbaked Moroccan sweet made from toasted flour and ground almonds, sesame seeds, sugar or honey, cinnamon, and anise; as you\u2019d expect, recipes vary from family to family. At Nablus Sweets, 6812 5th Ave, Brooklyn, I spotted a huge brown mountain of it and purchased a small knoll, broken here into two little hillocks. It\u2019s soft in texture, somewhere along the cookie<\u2013>brownie continuum but drier, crumbly but crunchy from nuts \u2013 just break off a chunk and enjoy, perhaps with a cup of tea. If your knowledge of Middle Eastern\/Mediterranean sweets is informed primarily by honey drenched baklava and kanafeh, give this one a try (available particularly around Ramadan); I highly recommend it.
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I’m revamping my Middle Eastern Bay Ridge ethnojunket! Did you know that Bay Ridge and Beirut are cognates? Just kidding.
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