Asure or Noah's Pudding
This dessert has a strange story. When Noah’s Ark reached the land after the Deluge, people boiled everything in the Ark and made this pudding style mixture. It contains pre-boiled and crushed wheat (if you know the regular bulgur, this one is twice or three times bigger), chickpeas, dried beans, nuts, dried figs and apricots, almonds… Actually whatever you can find in your kitchen. It can be served hot or cold with some decorations of pomegranate and cinnamon.Here, we cook Asure in a certain time called “Asure month” to memorize the story. Actually it is Muharrem month of Hicri calendar (Islamic moon calendar, starting from the migration of Mohammad). There are several important events on the10th day of this month. And this day is called “Asura Day”. In our tradition, women prepare Asure during Muharrem month and share it with neighbors.Not my favorite (also I don’t really into...
