Awameh

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Awameh
Alternative names	زلابية (zlabieh)
Type	fried-dough
Place of origin	Levant
Region or state	Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel
Variations	dough, sugar syrup or honey, cinnamon

Awameh (Arabic: عوامة) which is Arabic for “Floater”, is a kind of fried-dough Levantine pastry similar to doughnut holes, made of deep fried dough, soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame. In the Middle East, they are also known as ‘zlabieh’ (زلابية). They are associated with Christmas and the "circumcision of Christ", or baptism, called Ghtas.^[1] It is also referred to as Awwameh.^[2]

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