Puddings

🇩🇯Tadjourah, Djibouti

Mango Fool

Chilled mango fool — a creamy pudding of mango puree layered with whipped cream and fresh mango pieces, sold in Tadjourah during mango season.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Mango Pomelo Sago

杨枝甘露

Chilled mango purée with coconut milk, sago pearls and shreds of pomelo, which stay bitter against the sweetness.

🇼🇸Samoa

Mango Pudding

Poi mago

Refreshing Samoan mango pudding; mangoes blended with lime juice, coconut milk, sugar, and vanilla; chilled until ready to serve; recommended over ice; sweet, tangy, and creamy; a TasteAtlas-listed dessert; the tropical fruit pudding of Samoa.

🇧🇷Brazil

Manjar Branco

A pure white Brazilian coconut pudding set in a ring mold and served cold with a sauce of prunes poached in port wine. A classic New Year's and Yemanjá dessert.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Maple Dumplings

Grands-Pères

Quebec-style dumplings ('grandfathers') poached in maple syrup or brown-sugar sauce until glossy and soft.

🇵🇱Poland

Marcinek

Marcinek is a dessert from Podlaskie Voivodeship, a sweet finish to the local table.

🇾🇪Yemen

Masoob

Overripe bananas mashed into torn flatbread with cream, curd cheese, dates and honey, served warm in a bowl.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Masoub

معصوب

Yemeni dessert popular in UAE, mashed bananas and bread enriched with butter, cream, honey, dates, and spices, creamy mashed banana texture with good bread integration, balanced sweetness, served fresh.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Matrimony

Star apple pulp scooped out and mixed with orange segments, condensed milk and nutmeg, served cold at Christmas.

🇨🇴Boyacá, Colombia

Mazamorra

A Colombian Andean dish of cooked white corn kernels served with milk, panela, and cheese. A simple, rustic breakfast of the highlands, especially Boyacá.

🇦🇷Argentina

Mazamorra con Leche

A creamy version of mazamorra cooked with milk, sugar, vanilla, and sometimes cinnamon. A rustic, comforting dessert from the Argentine northwest.

🇵🇪Peru

Mazamorra Morada

Deep purple pudding made from purple corn, dried fruits, cloves, cinnamon, and sugar. Pre-Hispanic origins, served warm.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Meghli

مغلي

A dark pudding of ground rice, caraway, cinnamon and anise, set in bowls and covered with soaked nuts and coconut.

🇿🇦South Africa

Melkkos

A South African dessert of milk with bread or rusks, sweetened with sugar and cinnamon, a rustic and comforting dish

🇷🇴Romania

Memorial Wheat

Colivă

Boiled wheat berries mixed with honey, walnuts and poppy seeds, shaped into a mound and decorated with crosses and candles.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Mhalbiya

محلبية

Rice-flour pudding perfumed with geranium or rose water, set in small dishes and scattered with pistachio.

🇲🇱Mali

Millet and Curd Milk

Dégué

A Malian dish of millet couscous mixed with curdled milk; a Bambara specialty; listed in the Mali tourism document as a traditional dish; the millet is steamed and then mixed with fresh curdled milk and sugar; a refreshing, nutritious snack or breakfast; found at street stalls and markets

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Miša

Miša is a Czech curd-cheese dessert made as a soft cocoa-coated or cocoa-layered bar or slice.

🇵🇱Silesia, Poland

Moczka

A Silesian gingerbread soup of crumbled gingerbread, dried fruit, and nuts in a sweet broth. A Christmas Eve dessert, sweet and spicy, a regional Silesian tradition, served warm.

🇲🇲Myanmar

Mont Let Hsaung

မုန့်လက်ဆောင်း

Tapioca or rice-flour noodles in coconut milk with jaggery syrup, served cold as a spoonable drink.

🇲🇸Montserrat

Montserrat Potato Pudding

Potato Pudding

A traditional dessert served at Martin's Takeaway during festival season in Montserrat; made with sweet potato and spices; a Caribbean-style pudding; a festive Montserrat treat.

🇵🇰Pakistan

Moong Dal Halwa

مونگ دال حلوہ

A slow-cooked dessert of moong dal, ghee and sugar, rich and grainy.

🇫🇷France

Mousse Au Chocolat

Mousse au chocolat is a whipped chocolate dessert whose texture comes from aerated eggs or cream.

🇬🇷Greece

Moustalevria

Μουσταλεβρία

Grape must and flour pudding.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Muhallebi

Sakizli muhallebi

Muhallebi is the base Turkish milk pudding and the anchor of the muhallebici shop; it belongs in the catalog as the parent of the pudding family.

🇳🇴Norway

Multekrem (Cloudberry Cream)

Multekrem

A Norwegian dessert of cloudberries mixed with sugar and whipped cream, served cold, a national and Arctic specialty

🇮🇩Indonesia

Mung Bean Porridge

Bubur Kacang Hijau

Sweet porridge made from mung beans with coconut milk and palm sugar, comforting and nutritious.

🇸🇳Senegal

Ngalakh

Ngalax

Millet couscous mixed with baobab fruit pulp and groundnut paste, sweetened and eaten cold.

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Nhopi

Pumpkin boiled down and mashed with maize meal and peanut butter into a thick sweet-savoury mash, eaten as a meal or a pudding.

🇮🇳Lucknow, India

Nimish

निमिष

Milk foam is whipped with sugar and saffron into Lucknow's fleeting winter dessert.

🇫🇷Normandy, France

Norman Rice Pudding

Teurgoule

Norman baked rice pudding with cinnamon, slow-cooked for hours in earthenware.

🇷🇴Romania

Orez Cu Lapte

Romanian rice pudding slowly simmered in milk with cinnamon or lemon, until the grains are tender in a spoonable cream.

🇨🇳China

Orh Nee

芋泥

Teochew dessert of taro steamed and mashed with shallot oil and sugar into a dense warm paste, topped with gingko nuts and pumpkin or coconut cream.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Osmaliyeh

عثملية

A Lebanese dessert of crisp kataifi threads layered with ashta cream and pistachios, soaked in sugar syrup and served chilled.

🇮🇳India

Paal Payasam

പാൽ പായസം

A South Indian milk pudding of rice or vermicelli, scented with cardamom.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Palouzes

Παλουζές

Palouzes is a Cypriot grape-must pudding thickened with flour and scented with rosewater or cinnamon.