Murri Naqi Substitute
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
2 cups
ingredients
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 1⁄2 ounces bread or 1/3 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 2⁄3 teaspoon anise seed
- 2⁄3 teaspoon fennel seed
- 2⁄3 teaspoon nigella seeds
- 1⁄4 teaspoon saffron
- 1⁄3 teaspoon celery seed
- 1⁄4 ounce carob powder (1 tbsp)
- 1⁄4 ounce walnuts, chopped fine
- 1 1⁄2 ounces quinces
- 1⁄2 cup salt
- 1 pint water
- 1⁄4 lemon, juice of
directions
- Cook the honey in a small frying pan on medium heat, bringing it to a boil then turning off the heat and repeating several times; it will taste scorched.
- The bread is sliced white bread, toasted in a toaster to be somewhat blackened, then mashed in a mortar. Or, toast breadcrumbs in a dry skillet until very very dark brown.
- Toast the anise, fennel and nigella in a frying pan or roast under a broiler, then grind in a mortar with celery seed and walnuts.
- Peel and core quince.
- Boil all ingredients except the lemon together for about 2 hours, then put it in a potato ricer, squeeze out the liquid and add lemon juice to it; this is the murri. The recipe generates about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of liquid. You can then add another 1/2 cup of water to the residue, simmer 1/2 hr -1 hr, and squeeze out that liquid for the second infusion, which yields about 1/3 cup. A third infusion using 1/3 cup of water yields another 1/4 cup or so.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DrGaellon
New Rochelle, 0
I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013.
After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!