Ashure - Ashura

Ashura

Ashura is an Islamic holiday that is celebrated on the tenth day of Muharram. It is one of the four sacred

months in the Islamic calendar. It is also in “the month of Allah”, aka Muharram. It is on the 10th day of

Muharram. Most Islamic people fast during this period of time for 2 days. Muslims celebrate Ashura as the

day when the Islamic prophet Musa was saved by Allah while leading the children of Israel to the land of

Israel. The most famous food for this festival is Ashure.

Food - Ashure

This dessert is very common in South Asia. They use their own type of flour which is called “Suji” which is

semolina. During this holiday, you are supposed to praise God. By praising, you have offered him food and

your hours. And in these countries, we offer veg food because, on this day, warfare is forbidden. Therefore

no animals should be harmed,

This dessert mainly to be honest is just an Afghan variation of pudding. This pudding is quite different from

normal pudding in procedure and ingredients. First, they fry ghee (Clarified butter that originated in the Indus

valley ) Next, they add flour into the fried ghee, mix in semolina(coarse flour made from durum wheat(has

high protein content relative to normal wheat), sugar syrup, and cardamom nutmeg powder (spice often

applied in Indian dessert) Then you cool it and it is completed.

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Afghanistan