The Egyptian dessert Umm Ali is similar to bread pudding in the United States. It can be served warm with a dollop of vanilla ice cream from France.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
Ingredients
- 6 cups sliced pears
- ½ cup butter, melted or to taste
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, or more as needed
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter, softened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Spread pears to cover bottom of the baking dish; drizzle with melted butter and maple syrup.
- Stir flour, brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Cut softened butter into flour mixture until mixture resembles coarse crumbs, adding more flour if necessary. Sprinkle topping over pears.
- Bake in preheated oven until pears are bubbling and topping is crisp, about 30 minutes.
- For riper pears, omit syrup.
- You can substitute half cooking oats, half flour for the topping.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 417 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 62 g |
| Cholesterol | 49 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 137 mg |
| Sugars | 36 g |
| Fat | 19 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It was super easy and tasted great!!
Thank you for a great simple recipe!
Had all ingredients in spite of Corona Virus thanks to a Mother’s Day gift of pears. Tripled the amount of maple syrup and did everything else exactly according to the recipe. An absolutely fantastic dessert! Will definitely make again when I am able to get more pears!
We had 3 cups of pears around (never really ripened, but good for baking), so halved most of the other ingredients. Based on other reviews, used ~3/4 cup oats and ~1/4 cup flour, which was a good mix. Also added nutmeg and cloves, because I love crisps with more spice.
I will probably make it again if I get another sack of pears from the neighbors. The pears part tastes fabulous but the crumbles are kind of weird, not bad just odd, not quite what I was expecting. Still, a good recipe overall.
A little dry. I added some water.
Beyond delicious! Everyone loves it!
Only 1/4 cup of butter over the pears and one cup of flour in the topping. Got compliments.
First Time Making It!!. I surprise myself!! And my Hunni. It was sooooo good!!! Especially with Vanilla Icecream!
Easy, delicious dessert. I halved the recipe for the two of us, and added one apple to the two pears I had. Also squeezed just a bit of lemon before the topping went on. Had some oatmeal to use up (just 1/4 cup) so added it to the topping. Really mostly followed the recipe. I did bake it longer than 30 min – more like 45, since I like a rather crispy topping. We both really liked this, and I’ll make it again.
Came out great! I used 4 came of Delmonte Pear Slices, drained and cut the pears and used 1 cup of flour and added more to my liking. I also baked it for 50 mins and it came out awesome. Great Recipe!
Absolutely delicious!! I threw in a handful of walnuts, a handful of raisins and a handful of dried tart cherries. When it was done I thought the crumb crust looked dry, so I shaved some butter across the top. OMG – so good!
I decided to try this b/c I had all the ingredients at home except syrup. I used 2 cans of Del Monte pears. I cut all ingredients in half followed instructions and it was amazing. Although I left in the oven for 40 mins an additional 10 mins. Only change I made was since I didn’t have syrup I drizzled a little pure honey on peaches. Will definitely make again.
I’m not a wonderful cook, but this recipe turned out great. My pears were very ripe, so I didn’t use any syrup, did squirt in a bit of honey. It looked lovely and tasted sooo good. I’m going to try it again with apples!! This is an easy and delicious recipe!
With some tweaks, it will be better. I’ll add some sugar and more flavors to the pears, and reduce the amount of topping. And bake a bit longer.
The topping didn’t look right! I didn’t read the reviews until after i put it in the oven. I pulled it out of the oven & added more brown sugar and more butter…it still didn’t look right so I sprayed some water until it had the consistency of wet sand. It tuned out DELICIOUS!!! My husband…who comes from a long line of bakers…approved!!! I will mk it again but will omit the second cup of flour.
Added lil more cinnamon also sprinkled a bit of cinnamon sugar on pear slices just a lil it was delicious!! Make it again? YES!
It just needed something more, more oats, more nuts more spices…
There was too much flour and it is too sweet for my family’s taste.
Great and easy recipe. Very yummy.
There was a bag of pears going to waste in my house and I was gonna let that go down, so I found this. Kinda had to mush around the pears with the topping, otherwise it would have been too dry. I liked it though, and even someone as inept as myself can cook this so you go for it girl. Added pecans because why the hell not