We have provided you with the recipe for Southern Legimat. By reading this article, you can cook a delicious and flavorful Southern dessert for yourself and your loved ones at home. Noush Jantan
If you are a fan of sweets, you have probably heard of the name Legimat. Legimat is one of the most popular and famous sweets of Ramadan among Arabs. This sweet, which has a very easy recipe and is easy to cook, is classified as a dough-based sweet.
These extremely delicious golden balls are mostly prepared by people from Khuzestan and the South, especially Bandar Abbas. Legumes are a good choice for your snack. The quick and easy recipe and its unique taste will captivate everyone. To know more about this delicious and delicious snack and learn how to cook it, stay with us until the end of the article.
What are legume?
Legimat or Laghimat is one of the traditional and old Iranian sweets, originating from the southern parts of the country, especially Bushehr province. This wonderful sweet is very similar in appearance to okra and is the best choice for the holy month of Ramadan.
In terms of classification, it is in the same category as zulbia, okra, and goshfil, but the raw materials, type, and consistency of the dough are different from each other. It is in the form of small golden balls that are very crispy and delicious. Its main ingredients are flour, dough, and syrup.
History of Legimat
Today, you can find legimat mostly in southern cities. This popular snack is more common in the Gulf, where it is prepared during the month of Ramadan and also on happy and formal occasions. It is interesting to know that the Gulf people pronounce the letter qaf as gaf, which is why this sweet is called legimat.
The original history of legimat can be found in the cookbook of Al-Baghdadi. This book is currently kept in Istanbul, Turkey. Legimat is called Lokmah al-Qadi in Baghdad and has become popular among Arabs from there. However, people in Turkey believe that this sweet, called Lokmah, which comes from the word Lokmah in Arabic, was first cooked by a cook in the Sultan's court during the Ottoman period and its recipe was unknown for several centuries.
However, based on evidence, it appears that the Turks learned how to make legimat after the Baghdadis, because al-Baghdadi wrote the recipe for this sweet many years before the emergence of the Ottoman Empire (during the Abbasid period), and many of the sweets that are common in Turkey and for which the Turks are famous are very similar to Arabic sweets.
On the other hand, the Greeks consider this dessert to be their own and it is considered one of the common desserts in this country. Legimat is called loukoumades in Greece and the Cypriots also know this dessert by the same name. The lexical origin of loukoumades goes back to the same Arabic lokma and Turkish lokma. It is interesting to know that the people of Greece serve this dessert with a type of ice cream flavored with mastic or cinnamon, while the Turks and Arabs eat it with coffee or other hot drinks, usually after a meal or at formal parties.
How to make legume with eggs
You don't need an oven or microwave to prepare this delicious dessert, just go to the kitchen and get to work, and after 45 minutes you will have a dish full of delicious legume. Here we will teach you two different ways to make legume. Try to choose the necessary ingredients carefully and follow the steps correctly.
Ingredients for preparing legume
- White flour: one cup
- Rice flour: one teaspoon
- Baking powder: one teaspoon
- Egg: one
- Instant yeast: one tablespoon
- Yogurt: half a cup
- Lukewarm water: as needed
- Liquid oil: as needed
Legume preparation time: 45 minutes
The ingredients listed are suitable for four people.
Steps to cook legume with eggs
First step (preparation of the legume dough)
To cook Legimati dessert, you must first prepare the dough. Take a large plastic container and mix the egg with yogurt, instant yeast, baking powder, and rice flour. When the contents are completely mixed, add the flour to the mixture and knead the dough with your hands until it is ready. If the dough is stiff, you can add a little lukewarm water to it to make it softer. Legimati dough should be a little loose and thin, but at the same time sticky. Now let the dough rest in a warm place for one to three hours to rise and puff up.
Tip 1: To speed up your work, you can prepare the legume dough the night before. Then leave the dough in the refrigerator for a day to rise.
Tip 2: You can use electric or hand mixers to mix the ingredients until they are completely combined.
Second stage (cooking the legume)
In the second step, choose a cast iron or Teflon pot or a deep frying pan, place it on the stove and pour a lot of oil into it. Set the stove to low heat so that the oil heats up slowly. Pour the dough into the funnel of the funnel. Bring the tip of the funnel close to the oil and press the top of the funnel with your hand until one and a half centimeters of dough comes out of the tip of the funnel. Then, with the other hand, remove the dough from the tip of the funnel so that it falls into the oil. You can also use a small ice cream scoop for this. Dip the scoop maker in the cold oil, then dip it in the dough and drop it into the hot oil. To make this easier, dip the scoop maker into the cold oil each time and continue again. If you don't have any of these tools, you can do this with a tablespoon.
Stage 3 (reddening of the ligaments)
Now fry the dough balls thoroughly. Do not leave them in the oil and keep stirring and shaking them. With a strainer or spatula, press the dough balls into the oil until they are completely submerged in the oil and turn golden brown.
Note: If, while frying the legumes, you notice that their surface is full of holes and not puffing, the dough flour is low and you should add a tablespoon of flour to the dough mixture.
Step Four (Putting the Legumes in the Syrup)
After the leguminous vegetables are fried, immediately place the hot pieces into the bowl of cold syrup and stir well until they are completely coated in the syrup. Let the leguminous vegetables sit in the syrup for about one to two minutes to fully absorb the syrup.
Note: The nectar must be cooled to room temperature so that it can be easily absorbed by the pellets.
Fifth stage (Cervical ligaments)
Now it's time to take the delicious legume out of the syrup container and place it on a dish. You can decorate the legume with coconut powder, pistachio powder, or chocolate sauce. Your delicious and tasty dessert is ready to enjoy.
Ingredients for Legume Juice
- Sugar: two and a half cups
- Infused saffron: as desired amount
- Corn syrup or liquid glucose: two tablespoons
- Rose water: a quarter of a glass
- Lemon juice: one tablespoon
Steps to prepare nectar or legume juice
Step 1 (Combining water and rose water)
To prepare the syrup or syrup for this delicious dessert, first pour the water and rose water into a pot and place it on the stove. Bring this mixture to a boil over low heat.
Step 2 (Add lemon juice, saffron, and sugar)
When the water and rose water come to a boil, you can add the saffron and lemon juice and stir. After about a minute, pour the sugar into the mixture and wait for it to settle. Do not stir the sugar and let some of it dissolve on its own. Then, using a wooden spatula, mix the sugar thoroughly with the contents of the pot.
Step 3 (Add glucose)
In the final step, add the liquid glucose and stir. After one to two minutes, turn off the gas and set the nectar aside until it cools completely and its consistency is appropriate.
The second method of preparing homemade legume
In this section, we have provided you with another method for preparing Legimat. You can also try this method to prepare this delicious dessert.
Ingredients for cooking legume with powdered milk
- Confectionery powder: three tablespoons
- White flour: 240 grams
- Cornstarch: three tablespoons
- Full-fat yogurt: two cups
- Sugar: two tablespoons
- Instant yeast: one tablespoon
- Cardamom: half a teaspoon
- Fennel: half a teaspoon
- Salt: one-eighth teaspoon
- Liquid oil: as needed
- Lukewarm water: as needed
Preparation time: 45 minutes
The ingredients listed are for eight people.
Steps for cooking and preparing legumes
Step 1 (mixing dry ingredients)
First, you need to mix the dry ingredients. To make this simple homemade eggless dessert, take a large plastic container and combine the cornstarch, powdered milk, sugar, white flour, instant yeast, salt, fennel, and cardamom.
Step 2 (Making the Dough)
Now you need to gradually and slowly add the yogurt to the contents of the container. At the same time, stir the ingredients well until the contents become a loose, sticky, and moist dough like yogurt. Remember that the dough of this dough should be a little loose.
Note: For the legume dough, use yogurt that is at room temperature.
Step 3 (resting the dough)
After making the legume dough, cover the bowl with plastic wrap for an hour. Be sure to leave the bowl of yeast in a warm environment until the dough "rises" and doubles in size.
Step 4 (Knead the dough)
At this stage, be sure to wear disposable gloves. Dip the gloves in oil. Now knead the dough well. When you rest the dough, air is created in it, you need to remove its puffiness.
Step 5 (Fry the vegetables)
Place a pot on the stove and set the heat to medium. Pour enough oil into the pot to allow the dough balls to float. Pour the dough into a scoop or pastry bag. Drop the legume balls into the oil in the same manner as above. While frying, move the legume balls around frequently and dip them into the oil with a spatula.
Step 6 (Pour the vegetables into the juice)
When the sweets are golden brown, remove them from the hot oil and immediately place them in a bowl containing the nectar or syrup. Once the sweets have absorbed the syrup, remove them from the bowl and place them in a colander to drain off any excess syrup.
Step 7 (Place in a dish)
Now it's time to serve your unique and fragrant snack. Arrange the legume in a large dish or container according to your taste. You can also pour date syrup, honey, or grape juice on it to make your dessert more delicious.
Pottery making for the preparation of legume
You can roll the legume in powdered sugar or cinnamon to experience a different flavor, depending on your taste.
If you like crunchy legume, reduce the amount of yogurt by one tablespoon, as yogurt softens the texture of the legume.
It's best to stir the dough balls in the oil each time before dropping them so that your legume puffs up more.
The recipe for preparing Legimat does not use sugar or any other sweetener, but if you prefer it a little sweeter, you can add a tablespoon of honey or sugar to your contents.
Note that if you are using an ice cream scoop to scoop the legume dough, dip it back into the oil after each use for the next scoop. This will help the dough to easily separate from the scoop when dropping the ball into the oil and not stick to it.
Recommendations about legumes
Avoid storing legumes at home for long periods of time.
This sweet has little nutritional value, and eating too much of it will increase blood sugar and fat levels, leading to cardiovascular disease. So be careful when eating it.
Final words
As you have learned from reading the above article, Laghimat or Legimat is a delicious Arabic dessert that is baked in southern cities of Iran such as Bushehr. This dessert, like Zulbia and Okra, is a good choice for your iftar tables. The only thing you should keep in mind is that Legimat is high in calories, fat, and sugar, and if consumed in excess, it can endanger your health. So, to maintain your health, enjoy this delicious dessert in moderation.
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How to make quick and easy original legumes with 2 methods - Online cooking lessons
We have provided you with the instructions and method for preparing southern legume. You can cook delicious and flavorful southern legume at home. Khuzestani or Bushehri or Bandar Abbas legume
Type: Sweets
Cuisine: Iranian
Keywords: Legimate
Recipe Yield: 4
Calories: 150
Preparation Time: PT1H10M
Cooking Time: PT0H30M
Total time: PT1H40M
Recipe Ingredients:
- White flour: one cup
- Rice flour: one teaspoon
- Baking powder: one teaspoon
- Egg: one
- Instant yeast: one tablespoon
- Yogurt: half a cup
- Lukewarm water: as needed
- Liquid oil: as needed
Recipe Instructions: We have provided you with a professional tutorial on how to make Legimat or Southern Laghimat. We hope you enjoy this delicious Southern dessert tutorial and cook it for your loved ones.
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