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Chai Hamidh

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. A hot lime drink is made by breaking open dried limes (noomi basra, see page 44) and pouring boiling hot water over them. Strain, and sweeten to taste.

Cover of Claudia Roden's The New Book of Middle Easter Food, featuring a blue filigree bowl filled with Meyer lemons and sprigs of mint.
Reprinted with permission from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, copyright © 2000 by Claudia Roden, published by Knopf. Buy the full book on Amazon or Bookshop.
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