Khaliat Nahal /Honeycomb Bread
Khaliat nahal  / Honeycomb Bread is a popular Arabic bread/middle eastern delicacy  which is  soft,buttery  cheese-filled bread/rolls  soaked in a sugar syrup that served as a sweet dish particularly suitable for Iftar. 
Servings Prep Time
4people 30minutes
Cook Time
25minutes
Servings Prep Time
4people 30minutes
Cook Time
25minutes
Ingredients
For Bread
For sugar syrup
Instructions
Prepare the sugar syrup
  1. Boil the sugar, water together for a few minutes until it is slightly thickened. Remove from the heat and add the honey. Mix and set aside to cool completely
To prepare bread
  1. Sieve the flour, then add milk powder, sugar, yeast and salt. Then add the oil and butter and the egg, and mix together. Now add all the milk.
  2. Start kneading together and gradually add the water a little at a time. until your dough is nice and soft. Knead for a good 8-10 minutes. The more you knead it the softer the buns will be.
  3. Apply oil and set aside to double in size
  4. Punch it down, and break off tiny bits of dough.Take each balls and fill it with a small piece of cheese in its center and shape it .
  5. Grease pans with butter. Place the balls of dough in a ‘honeycomb’ pattern and keep it close .again cover and allow it to rise
  6. Now apply egg wash on the balls, preheat your oven to 180 C and bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until the bread is nice and golden on top.
  7. Remove from the oven and pour your syrup all over the hot bread. Remember that the syrup needs to be cool and the bread needs to be steaming hot straight from the oven. Allow it to cool.
Recipe Notes

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