Sfouf
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Sfouf is a Lebanese almond-semolina cake. It is made from semolina flour flavored with turmeric
, sugar, and pine nut
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Turmeric
Turmeric is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to tropical South Asia and needs temperatures between 20 °C and 30 °C and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive...
, sugar, and pine nut
Pine nut
Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines . About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of great value as a human food....
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Nutritional information
A typical recipe of Sfouf has the following nutrition facts per serving (around 75g):- Calories: 291
- Total fat (g): 11
- Saturated fat (g): 1
- Cholesterol (mg): 0
- Carbohydrates (g): 44
- Protein (g): 3