Death Dumplings (Lgaimat)

Kuwaiti Style Fried Dumplings (lgaimat) with Saffron and Cardamom Syrup.
( Photo by Equalizer)

What is it with the excessive sweet holocaust that everyone seems to enjoy in Ramadan, me included. How many times have you spent hours at work without eating or drinking and you come back home to eat a normal meal. Do we excessively eat sweets in Ramadan simply because it is tradition?

I think over hundreds of years, fat house wives concocted the perfect slow death formula to put to sleep their bitter nagging hungry husbands in Ramadan. I might be wrong, it could simply be a way to quickly bolster the energy lost during fasting. Whatever it is, I feel it. I feel my heart screaming out loud in pain as it tries to pump the petroleum-heavy sweet-induced blood. It simply spells CORONARY BYPASS.

One of the famous Kuwaiti Ramadan special is Lgaimat, which is a crispy fried sweet and sour dough dumplings smothered with a saffron and cardamom infused sugar syrup and garnished with fine crushed pistachios.

Other Lgaimat Ideas:

-Banana Toffee Lgaimat: Fried banana dough topped with warm toffee sauce

-Esspresso Lgaimat: Espresso infused fried dough with a side of sweet mascarpone cheese sauce.

-Hazelnut Nutella Lgaimat: Crushed hazelnut fried dough smothered with warm nutella.

-Lgaimat Kenafa: Fresh cream topped with cripsy fried dough and smothered with orange blossom infused syrup