Recipes

“ Qatayef “

Ingredients:

To prepare the syrup:

- 2 cups water

- 4 cups sugar

- 1 Tbs. lemon juice

- 1 Tsp. rose water

To prepare the dough:

- 2 cups flour

- ½ cup Sunflower oil

- 1 tbs. milk powder

- 2 cups water

- 1 tbs. sugar

- 1 ½ tsp. yeast

-1 Tbs. flour (semolina)

- ¼ tsp. salt

To prepare the filling:

- 5 tbs. sugar

- 3 cups walnut, crushed

- 3 tbs. rose water

- ½ tsp. cinnamon

For frying: sunflower oil

 

Direction:

To make the syrup:

1- in a saucepan, put sugar and water. Stir until sugar dissolves completely.

2- When the mixture starts to boil, add lemon juice and stir for a minute.

3- Put the saucepan aside then pour rose water, stir once. Cool aside. 

To prepare the dough:

1-In a large bowl add flour, yeast, semolina, milk powder, Sunflower oil, water, sugar and salt. mix ingredients until you get a dough.

2- Put the dough aside for half an hour.

3- In a heated saucepan, pour two tbs. from the dough. Simmer on low heat until golden. Repeat for the remaining quantity of the dough. Set aside to cool.

To prepare the filling:

1- In a bowl mix walnut, sugar, cinnamon and rose water.

2- Fill each dough circle with a tbs. of the filling and close by pressing the edges.

3- Fry qatayef in a heated sunflower oil until golden.

4- Put fried qatayef into syrup for a little bit, then lift and put in a serving dish.