Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, starozoumo or kolyvozoumi. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Great recipe for Starozoumo or kolyvozoumi. Sweet pudding made of boiled wheat berries with tahini and a variety of nuts. It resembles Varvara but it has tahini in it. A traditional pudding for fasting from my homeland (Samos) that is distributed in memorial services and we also have it on Great.
Starozoumo or kolyvozoumi is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Starozoumo or kolyvozoumi is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have starozoumo or kolyvozoumi using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Starozoumo or kolyvozoumi:
- Prepare 250 g wheat berries
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup flour, browned either in a non stick skillet or a baking tray in the oven
- Make ready 1 cup tahini
- Take 1 tsp roasted cumin
- Take 1 1/2-2 cups sugar (depending on how sweet you prefer it)
- Get 1 cup walnuts, finely cut
- Prepare 1 cup roasted almonds, finely cut
- Make ready 1/2 cup roasted sesame seeds
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Get 1 pomegranate
- Prepare Cinnamon for sprinkling
Steps to make Starozoumo or kolyvozoumi:
- Boil the wheat berries from the previous night and next day strain it, measure 10 cups of the stock and put it in a pot.
- Blend half of the boiled wheat berries in the food processor so that you get a gruel and add it to the stock.
- Dissolve the flour slowly adding the cold stock to it, little by little, so that it doesn't curdle and then add it to the pot as well.
- Add the sugar and stir constantly over low heat until it thickens and becomes a light pudding (if it thickens too much add a bit of water).
- Remove from the fire and add the raisins and the cumin.
- Put the tahini in a deep pot and slowly add cold water to it (about 1 1/2 cup) and stir it to make a thin cream, then add the pudding little by little so that tempers and doesn't curdle, then add that to the rest of the pudding and stir vigorously.
- Boil the pudding for a couple of minutes stirring constantly.
- Mix the walnuts, almonds and the sesame seeds.
- Serve in bowls and sprinke the nuts mix, the pomegranate seeds and cinnamon on top, in the shape of a cross.
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