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Ashura and noah's pudding
The tenth of Muharram: in Turkey, aşure, a pudding of grains, beans and dried fruit scented with cinnamon and clove.
Spices for Ashura and noah's pudding
For Sunni Muslims Ashura is a day of fasting, and in Turkey and the Balkans it is the day for aşure, the so-called Noah's pudding, a sweet pudding made from wheat, chickpeas, beans, dried apricots, figs and nuts, topped with pomegranate and cinnamon and sometimes cloves, made in large batches and shared with neighbours. Shia communities mark the day as mourning for Husayn, offering nazri food such as haleem and rice with turmeric chicken to the public. The spice is cinnamon in the sweet version and turmeric and black pepper in the savoury.
The spices
Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Ashura" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Clove: Bayu Nugroho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Turmeric: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source
- Cinnamon: Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, source