Khagineh | Stuffed Persian Sugar Omelet recipe, delicious Iranian desser in 7 types

Khagineh is a type of Iranian food served as a dessert and some people serve it as breakfast or part of their breakfast. Persian Sugar Omelet is an original and traditional food that is cooked in different ways.

Cooking Khagineh has been common in many regions of Iran since the past, in weddings, childbirth, birthdays, festivals, and rituals.

According to Mones al-Dawla, on the morning of the wedding day, the bride’s mother would send kachi and Stuffed Persian Sugar Omelet to her daughter’s house to eat after the bride came out of the bath.

James Justinian Morier also mentions the sweet and fatty khagineh on the colorful tables of elders and nobles; 

Also, Mohammad Komreei, in his memoirs, mentioned eating Persian Sugar Omelet along with fish, cheese, vegetables, and bread as lunch.

The main ingredient, or in other words, the basis for preparing Stuffed Persian Sugar Omelet, is eggs and vegetables.
And in every place in Iran, every city and village makes Stuffed Persian Sugar Omelet for itself in a different way and with different ingredients;

Simple Khagineh, also known as ghighanakh, is a simple and delicious Iranian breakfast; Also, Tabrizi, Zanjani, and Molded Persian Sugar Omelet is called ghighanakh.

Some of Khagineh’s types are:

1. Ingredients for making Simple Khagineh | Persian Sugar Omelet:

Flour	6 tablespoons
Egg	5 pieces
Yogurt	5 tablespoons
Sugar	2 cups
Baking powder	1 teaspoon
Brewed saffron	As much as needed
Liquid oil	As much as needed

* If you want, it is possible to use Grape juice instead of sugar, But the amount is different from sugar and, it is 2 to 3 tablespoons.

Recipe for making Simple Persian Sugar Omelet:

The first step in making Simple Persian Sugar Omelet:

In the first step, choose a suitable bowl to make a simple khagineh. Then break the eggs in it, add the yogurt, and stir well until the ingredients are completely uniform. Then, add one tablespoon of baking powder to the bowl along with the flour and mix the contents of the bowl well again.

The second step in making Simple Persian Sugar Omelet:

In the next step, please choose a suitable frying pan, pour some oil, and place it on the stove until it gets hot.
It is better to use a flame spreader. Then, after the oil is hot, reduce the heat very much and pour the contents of the bowl into the pan.

The third step in making Simple Persian Sugar Omelet:

Then put the pan in the oven and give the khagineh 20 minutes until one side is completely fried, then turn it over so that the other side gets also fried.

To prepare khagineh syrup, choose a pot and add two cups of water to it, as well as 2 cups of sugar and a tablespoon of melted saffron, then put the pot on the gas stove with low heat until the sugar dissolves completely in the water and it thickens a bit.

The fourth step in making Simple Persian Sugar Omelet:

After the other side of the khagineh is fried, take it out of the pan and cut it as desired, and after the khagineh syrup cools down, pour it on the khagineh and eat it.

2. Ingredients for making Khagineh Tabrizi | tabrizi khagineh (ghighanakh):

Egg	3 pcs
Yogurt	1 tablespoon
Flour	1 tablespoon
Baking powder	½ a teaspoon
Vanilla	¼ a teaspoon
Chopped Walnuts	6 pcs
Sugar	2 cups
Rose water	½ a cup
Melted or brewed saffron	As much as needed
Cardamom powder	1 tablespoon
Cinnamon powder	1 tablespoon
Damask rose powder	1 tablespoon

Recipe for making Simple Persian Sugar Omelet:

To prepare Tabrizi khagineh, choose a suitable bowl and break the eggs in it, then add vanilla and mix well until completely mixed.
Then add the sweet yogurt to the bowl, flour, and baking powder and mix well until it is completely uniform.
If the concentration of the egg is low, add some more flour to it. Its concentration should be less than the concentration of ferni.

In the next step, sprinkle cardamom powder, cinnamon powder, and Damask rose powder on the khagineh. 

Then put chopped walnuts in the middle and roll. Use a toothpick to hold the roll.

To prepare khagineh syrup:

1. Choose a pot and add two cups of water to it.
2. Put 2 cups of sugar and a tablespoon of melted saffron with rose water in a pot on a gas stove with low heat until the sugar dissolves completely in the water and thickens a bit.
3. Take it off the stove and let it cool.

Finally, pour the syrup on the rolled khagineh and eat it. You can cut the rolls into equal numbers with a knife to make them more beautiful.

3. Ingredients for making Khagine with nuts (Cake like Khagineh):

Flour	5 tablespoons
Egg	4 pcs
Sweet and dnsed yogurt (creamy yogurt or condensed yogurt)	4 tablespoons
Baking powder	1 teaspoon
vanilla	¼ teaspoon

Ingredients for making Khagine with nuts (Cake like Khagineh) syrup:

Sugar	a cup
Water	¾ a cup
Rose water	¼ a cup
Brewed saffron	As much as needed

Ingredients for making the middle part:

Cinnamon powder	1 tablespoon
Damask rose powder	1 tablespoon
Chopped Walnuts	½ a cup

Mix water and sugar and put it on medium heat until the sugar dissolves and the syrup becomes clear.
Then add rose water and saffron and reduce the heat and let it boil a little and reach a relative consistency.

Mix the eggs and vanilla and beat with a mixer until foamy and light in color, and mix yogurt and baking powder together; When the yogurt is puffed up, add it to the eggs and mix until smooth.

I add the flour and grease the inside of the pan a little with oil and put it on the heat until it gets hot.
We pour half of the khagine ingredients into the pan and leave it in the pan until it catches itself a little.

We remove the pan and pour the mixed middle ingredients on the khagine (try to spread the ingredients evenly) and then pour the next half of the khagineh ingredients on the middle ingredients.
We put Khagina in syrup to sweeten it.

* all the rest of the types have the same ingredients and recipes.

Conclusion:

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