Qumështor
How to make Sweet Qumeshtor Recipe
Qumështor, the milky dish, is a sweet Albanian custard. Milk, eggs, cornstarch, sugar and a vanilla bean, cooked into a thick cream and broiled under an egg wash. One of the easiest Albanian desserts, ready in about 40 minutes.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Total time
- 40 min
- Servings
- 8 servings
- Calories
- 220 kcal
- Course
- Dessert
- Cuisine
- Albanian
As written.
Ingredients
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No vanilla bean?
Use 1 tablespoon of pure vanilla extract per bean. Stir it in once the sauce comes off the heat.
You'll need
- Small saucepan (for warming the milk)
- Bigger saucepan (for cooking the sauce)
- Small knife (for the vanilla bean)
- Glass bowl
- Whisk
- Spatula
- Baking tray
- Small bowl and a fork (for the egg wash)
- Pastry brush
Instructions
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Warm the milk
- In a saucepan, let’s put together 4 cups milk and 1 vanilla bean.
- Make sure we slice the vanilla bean in half vertically before we put it into the milk.
- We are going to let the mixture warm up until it looks like this.
- You need
- 4 cups milk
- 1 vanilla bean
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Mix the eggs, sugar and cornstarch
- In a glass bowl, let’s combine together 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar and 4 tbsp cornstarch.
- We are going to mix it really well until the sugar is fully dissolved.
- The cornstarch is going to help us achieve the thickness, so the more cornstarch you add, the thicker the consistency is gonna be.
- You need
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 tbsp cornstarch
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Add the milk slowly
- Take the vanilla bean out of the milk and let’s start adding the milk slowly to the mixture.
- Do not add it all at once, because the heat of the milk is going to cook the eggs, which is not something that we’re looking for.
- Once we have added all the milk, let’s grab the vanilla bean and scrape out all the seeds inside it.
- Mix it really well and now let’s move it into a bigger saucepan.
Slowly, or the milk cooks the eggs.
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Cook the sauce
- Turn the heat to medium and continuously mix until the mixture becomes a sauce.
- This should take about 10 to 12 minutes.
- Once our sauce is ready, let’s put it aside and prepare some egg wash.
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Into the baking tray
- For the egg wash, beat 1 egg with a fork.
- In a baking tray, let’s add the qumështor sauce and even it out.
- Let it cool down for a little bit and then cover it with the egg wash that we prepared earlier.
- You need
- 1 egg
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Broil
- We are going to broil this on high heat for about 5 to 10 minutes.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 220 kcal
- Protein
- 7 g
- Fat
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 35 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 31 g
- Sodium
- 90 mg
Estimated from USDA FoodData Central, without vanilla bean.




