Cookbook:Lekhchef
Lekhchef | |
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Category | Beverage recipes |
Time | 10 minutes |
Difficulty |
Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes | Beverages | Cuisine of Algeria
Lekhchef (الخشاف) is a refreshing Algerian drink from Constantine.
IngredientsEdit
- 150g of raisins
- 1l of water
- 1 glass of orange blossom water
- a little of rose water
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- Sugar to taste
ProcedureEdit
- Put the water in a saucepan with the cinnamon sticks, rinse the raisins well.
- Pour the raisins into the boiling water and let them cook on low heat.
- Once cooked, sweeten drink to taste and let the sugar melt on very low heat while stirring.
- IF you decide to use the blender after cooking your raisins, do not add sugar as your drink might end up too sweet.
- Remove from the heat, remove the cinnamon sticks and let the drink completely cool down.
- Flavour with orange blossom water and enhance with rose water.
- Put the beverage in the refrigerator and serve very cold with or without raisins.