The post everyone is waiting for!

Oh yeah, I'm setting the expectations really high here, but I'm not afraid, not at all! 

And for good reasons: this famous middle eastern sweet is everyone's favourite, and I can see more than one reader lands up on this blog hoping to find the famous recipe. 

See where I'm going?

Luckily for you, I've got this ancestral Om Ali recipe from a Saudi friend. The basis of the Om Ali can be puff pastry, croissants, or even corn flakes. I personally prefer it with croissants, and the better the croissants, the better the Om Ali. 

If you live in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, you'll be lucky to find delicious croissants at the Suisse Patisserie (one thing to be really thankful for!), if you live in France, you should be able to get reasonably good croissants (probably not as good as these though...!) and if you live in Mexico or the US, you'll have to use the famous canned croissants (nothing as good as the real thing, but fun to bake!).

You'll need three or four of those

Crumble up the croissants and place in an oven-proof dish

Ingredients:

4 cups of milk
2 eggs
4 tablespoons of sugar
1 small carton of thick cream
Vanilla
A pinch of cardamom
Raisins (you can also add almonds, pistachios, etc.)

Mix the ingredients and pour the mix onto the crumbled croissants

Cover the dish with aluminium foil and bake in the oven for 45-60 minutes at 180°C

You can also top it with sweetened condensed milk and leave it for another 5 minutes. 

Enjoy!

It's best served warm, and you can also pour some extra warm milk on top to make it creamier.