Om Ali Bread Pudding

Om Ali Bread Pudding - Easy Meals with Video Recipes by Chef Joel Mielle - RECIPE30

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Arabian Style Sweet Pastry Pudding

An Arabic style bread pudding, or rather croissant pudding. It’s made with milk-soaked croissants, with nuts, coconut and raisins. A beautiful sweet pastry pudding!

This version uses three types of milk, including cream, full cream milk and condensed milk.

I first tasted this dish in the Dubai desert as per the video, so I dropped in some of my Dubai footage. The dish is also known as Omali, Umm Ali, or Oumm Ali which I believe means Mother of Ali.

This version is made using pistachio and flaked almonds. I prefer to toast the almonds first to release a more pleasing flavour. The pistachios are also toasted but just enough to activate their flavours. The dish is soaked with the spicy milk mixture and then baked until the surface is a nice golden brown. You may say, it is an Arabic style bread and butter pudding.
Enjoy my version of Om Ali, the Arabian Bread Pudding.

Ingredients

4-5 croissants (12.5oz – 360g)
2 cups full cream milk
1 cup heavy or thickened cream
1 cup (usually 1 can) sweetened condensed milk
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground cardamom
½ cup - 80g pistachios (shelled)
½ cup - 90g flaked almonds
1 cup - 70g shredded coconut
½ cup - 90g raisins
1 tbsp butter

Steps

Step 1
In a dry pan on high heat, add half the flaked almonds and toast them until golden brown. Toss them continuously for even browning. Set aside. In the same pan, toss in the pistachio nuts just to wake them up and release their flavours. Approx. 30 seconds, set aside.
Step 2
Tear up the croissants into bite size pieces and place half to create one layer in a well buttered baking dish. I used an 11 x 8½ inch or 28 x 11cm dish. You want at least 2½ inch – 7cm depth. Sprinkle with half the shredded coconut, toasted almond flakes, pistachios, and raisins.
Step 3
Make a second layer by tearing up the remaining croissants. Sprinkle again with remaining shredded coconut, untoasted almond flakes, pistachios, and raisins.
Step 4
In a small saucepan, (preferably non stick) place the milk, cream, condensed milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon and cardamom spices. Mix very well, bring to a gentle simmer and turn off heat. (Keep scraping bottom with spatula to avoid burning while heating up)
Step 5
Using a large ladle, pour the hot milk mixture over the croissant mixture, it will soak it all up.
Step 6
Place in oven and bake for 25 minutes at 340°F – 170°C or until the top is golden brown.

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