#لُقْمَةُ ٱلْقَاضِيِ

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Ancient Mesopotamian Recipes ("judge's morsels")

Loukoumades (لُقْمَةُ ٱلْقَاضِيِ)

This dough is made with flour, sugar, yeast, and lemon zest. The loukoumades are drizzled with melted chocolate, covered in cinnamon and honey, and sprinkled with pistachios.

The recipe for Luqmat al-Qadi, yeast-leavened dough boiled in oil and doused in honey or sugar syrup with rosewater, dates back to at least the early medieval period and the 13th-century Abbasid Caliphate, where it is mentioned in several of the existent cookery books of the time. It is also mentioned in One Thousand and One Nights, in the story The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad.