Asida
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Asida (, or Maghrebi ġsydë, ), a common dish in the Arab world, is a lump of dough made by stirring wheat flour into boiling water, sometimes with added butter or honey. Similar in texture to fufu, it is eaten mainly in Middle East and African countries. It is considered one of the best-known desserts and traditional dishes in many Arab countries.
Key facts
- Food.image
- عصيدة-قطيفية.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.region
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Food.type
- Pudding
- Food.main_ingredient
- Wheat flour; butter or honey
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- porridge
- Subclass of
- pudding
- Country
- Egypt
- Material used
- wheat flour
- Image
- Eating Asida.JPG
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- food-heritage.org/beiruti-assida
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- Asida (food)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Variations
- Morocco
- Libya
- Palestine
- Tunisia
- Yemen
- Ethiopia
- Sudan
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Asida (, or Maghrebi ġsydë, ), a common dish in the Arab world, is a lump of dough made by stirring wheat flour into boiling water, sometimes with added butter or honey. Similar in texture to fufu, it is eaten mainly in Middle East and African countries. It is considered one of the best-known desserts and traditional dishes in many Arab countries.
Asida is particularly common in Sudan, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the rest of the Middle East. Often served during religious holidays such as Mawlid and Eid, it is also served during other traditional ceremonies—for example, those accompanying the birth of a child, such as the ‘aqīqah, the cutting of the hair of a newborn seven days after birth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.