Eid al-Fitr | April 21, 2023

Eid al-Fitr | April 21, 2023

Nia Silke Tabe, Writer, Editor

During Eid, making maamoul date-filled semolina cookies is a common custom in the Middle East. These can also be topped with icing sugar and filled with nuts. Muslims typically spend the day going from house to house, visiting relatives and neighbors, and accepting sweets. Before Eid or on the morning of the first day, traditional desserts and sweets are prepared in every nation. Making amala with ewedu is a traditional Nigerian dish that is served on special occasions like Eid. The vermicelli and milk pudding are frequently enriched with nuts or raisins. Ewedu is a conventional plant-based soup presented with sweet potato flour or cassava presented with a meat stew. Baklava, a layered cake, is likewise ready for Eid in Turkey and across the locale. Pistachios and other nuts that have been soaked in orange blossom syrup are stuffed into thin filo pastry layers. Eid is celebrated in homes all over India and Pakistan with sheer khurma, also known as civilian. The customary sweet can likewise be made with a wide range of fillings.