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Khirret: Pollen-based candy comes from the marshes of southern Iraq (atlasobscura.com)
19 points by DoreenMichele on March 1, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Anyone have any idea what this would taste like compared to bee pollen? Or the most similar thing available in the Western world? Several minutes of Googling yielded nothing.


In another article an Israeli scholar speculates:

> that the yellow coconut sweets they make for Purim in Israel must have been a substitute for the hard-to-find original yellow khirret

http://nawalcooking.blogspot.com/2013/03/khirret-cattailtyph...

The article also says that the pollen is high in protein and it's mixed with sugar or date syrup. So one could guess it tastes a bit like a halva.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halva

Some of which are quite dense, chalky, and sweet, with an overtone of the particular protein - for instance, some halvas are made of milk, or beans, etc. I couldn't speculate what pollen protein would be like.


What do you mean by bee pollen?


It is used as a superfood sort of thing and it has a quite distintive taste (not a fan of it): https://georgiamead.com/blog/bee-pollen-as-a-yeast-nutrient/


But it's just flower pollen, collected by bees, no?




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