Recipe: Appetizing Katayef with Kashta cream

Katayef with Kashta cream. Mini Middle Eastern pancakes filled with white pastry cream, garnished with ground pistachios and drizzled with a thick, rose water-scented sugar syrup. Small, light and crispy pancakes, with ashta cream filling, served with sugar syrup. A show stopping ice cream cake with the much-loved flavors of the Middle East!

Kashta Katayef are one of the most important Oriental desserts, served during the holy month of Ramadan, as well as in celebration of Epyphany and Saint Barbara Feast Day, and made with flour and yeast. Katayef Bi Kashta (Pancakes with Cream). If you love Pancakes this dessert is sure to put a smile on your face. You can cook Katayef with Kashta cream using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Katayef with Kashta cream

1. It’s of For the batter:.
2. Prepare 2 cups of flour.
3. It’s 2 1/2 cups of warm water.
4. You need 1/4 teaspoon of dried yeast, dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm water.
5. It’s 2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder.
6. It’s 2 teaspoons of sugar.
7. You need 1 tablespoon of rose water.
8. It’s of For the ashta cream: prepare ahead of time.
9. You need 2 cups of milk.
10. It’s 2 cups of whipping cream.
11. Prepare 6 of slices American-style white bread.
12. You need 4 1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch, dissolved in 1/4 cup water.
13. Prepare of For the sugar syrup:.
14. Prepare 2 1/2 cups of sugar.
15. You need 1 1/2 cups of water.
16. Prepare 1 teaspoon of orange blossom water.
17. It’s 1 teaspoon of rose water.
18. It’s 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
19. You need of For garnishing:.
20. Prepare of candied orange blossom optional.
21. You need 1/2 cup of raw ground pistachios.

Katayef is the traditional sweet that is made during the Holy month of Ramadan. It's well known in all Arab Countries. It is really simple to make, and as long as they are pinched closed, they. How to make Kashta (clotted cream) – كيفية تحضير القشطة от : In Zee Kitchen It's a major ingredient for most Arabic sweets, and considered as the king of fillers. قطايف بالجوز والقشطة Katayef with walnuts and cream

Katayef with Kashta cream instructions

1. To prepare the sugar syrup: put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Leave to boil then add the lemon juice and keep on medium heat for 10 min until the syrup thickens. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and transfer to a large bowl..
2. To prepare the batter: mix all the ingredients together. Leave to rest for 3 hr at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator..
3. To prepare the atayef pancakes: delicately pour 1 large serving spoon of batter on a slightly greased pan. You should have an 8 cm diameter pancake. Cook on one side only. Bubbles will form on the surface of the dough. The pancakes are ready to be removed when the bubbles burst and the bottom of the pancake is slightly brown. The pancakes should be firm enough to be filled but they shouldn't be fully cooked. Repeat with the rest of the batter..
4. To prepare the ashta cream: Cut off the edges of the bread. Discard. Cut in dices the soft white part. Place the bread dices in a saucepan and pour the milk and whipping cream over them. Let the bread dices soak in the milk and cream mixture for at least 2 hr in the refrigerator. Put the saucepan on medium heat and, with a wooden spoon, start stirring the bread and milk mixture. Once the milk starts heating, add the water-dissolved cornstarch. Continue stirring until the mixture thickens. Once done, pour in a bowl and leave it to cool. Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and place the cream in the refrigerator in order to thicken before using it..
5. Fill each pancake with 1 to 2 tablespoons of ashta cream, close it from one side and keep it open from the other..
6. Garnish with ground pistachios or candied orange blossoms. Add sugar syrup to taste while serving..

Lina's Recipes от : Lina's Recipes Thank you for watching the video. Katayef is considered to be a dumpling but I think of it more as a pancake that is cooked on one side only. It is either filled with walnuts, sweet cheese, or kashta (cream). It is then either fried or baked in the oven. The last step is to pour some simple sugar syrup on top and enjoy.