Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
•Ashta cream is a clotted cream popular in the Middle East that is sometimes scented with orange blossom water. You can find it at select Middle Eastern grocers or substitute it by mixing ricotta cheese with a little thickened cream and optionally a drop of orange blossom water. If you love the Lebanese ashta (clotted cream), the you'll adore these DELICIOUS mini pancakes!
Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta:
- Prepare - For the batter:
- Prepare 2 cups flour
- Take 2 1/2 cups warm water
- Get 1/4 teaspoon dried yeast dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm water
- Get 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 2 teaspoons sugar
- Take 1 tablespoon rose water
- Prepare - For the ashta cream: prepare ahead of time
- Get 2 cups milk
- Make ready 2 cups whipping cream
- Take 6 slices American-style white bread
- Get 4 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in ¼ cup water
- Make ready - For the sugar syrup:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Take 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Take 1 teaspoon rose water
- Prepare Candied orange blossom (optional)
- Make ready 1/2 cup raw ground pistachios
- Get For garnishing:
Chopped pistachios and sweet syrup finish Atayef are small pancakes that are cooked on one side, shaped and then filled. They can be filled with sweetened ricotta cheese, nuts mixed with. Atayef are Middle-Eastern Pancakes stuffed with a ricotta cream, sprinkled with crushed pistachios and served with a rose-water simple syrup. Ashta is a clotted cream made from whole milk.
Steps to make Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta:
- 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.
- To prepare the batter: mix all the ingredients together. Leave to rest for 3 hr at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator.
- 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.
- 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 d
- Fill each pancake with 1 to 2 tablespoons of ashta cream, close it from one side and keep it open from the other.
- Garnish with ground pistachios or candied orange blossoms. Add sugar syrup to taste while serving.
- Note: You can find the recipe 'Ashta cream' under my profile.
It can be made at home, but, to be honest I highly prefer the ricotta cheese filling. Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta. Atayef are small, light, and fluffy pancakes. In this recipe they are filled with ashta cream and served with sugar syrup. I posted about this Arabic dessert before when I did them with cheese.
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