While mulberries can be eaten fresh, they are often dried or used in various recipes such as jams, pies and desserts.
Some Bahrain-based chefs, home cooks and food enthusiasts are getting creative with the superfood, bringing alive its rich colours and flavours in every bite.
Irish homemaker and blogger Moya Mc Guigan aka Food and Tools is excited to substitue regular berries with these juicy jewels in her easy-to-make mixed berry mousse (available on foodandtools.wordpress.com).
“Fruit and dairy products make a delicious combination and chilled desserts using these ingredients can easily be assembled for quick summer entertaining,” said the mother-of-two, who has called the island home for over 40 years.
Catering to the local palate, a homegrown ice cream palour, popular for its unique flavours many of which incorporate Bahraini ingredients, collaborated with Bahrain chef Lulwa Sowaileh to release ‘a mulberry, vanilla and rose situation’ made from native Bahraini mulberries.
The mulberry, vanilla and rose syrup is from the chef’s line of handcrafted artisanal preserves and was folded into a classic vanilla gelato - yum!
Sayed Maitham from Sitra, who has been making traditional halwa (sweet) for many years sold 1,000 boxes of his mulberry flavoured halwa in under two weeks.
“Mine is a fusion recipe of Omani and Bahraini styles,” he remarked, saying that he then adds his own touch to the dish, which makes it a favourite among his patrons.
Baking enthusiast Mubina Maqbool, whose creations have been an island favourite for almost two decades, has never used the fruit in her culinary escapades.
However, she feels they will pair well with vanilla, lemon, pistachio, almond, mascarpone, or white chocolate. The Riffa resident recounted eating mulberries as a child back home in Coorg, India.
“I would love to create a lemon mulberry loaf, perhaps, or even a mulberry galette. I feel the fruit would work beautifully in rustic-style desserts with fresh flavours and simple textures that really let the mulberries shine,” she added.
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