Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A super delicious arabic dessert , a sort of pancake stuffed with cream and garnished with nuts and sugar syrup. mostly served in the month of ramadan. If you love the Lebanese ashta (clotted cream), the you'll adore these DELICIOUS mini pancakes! The Lebanese atayef are thin, folded pancakes filled with ashta, sprinkled with crushed pistachios and served with ater (sugar syrup with rose water).
Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta:
- Make ready - For the batter:
- Take 2 cups flour
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups warm water
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon dried yeast dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm water
- Take 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 2 teaspoons sugar
- Prepare 1 tablespoon rose water
- Make ready - For the ashta cream: prepare ahead of time
- Get 2 cups milk
- Get 2 cups whipping cream
- Take 6 slices American-style white bread
- Make ready 4 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in ¼ cup water
- Prepare - For the sugar syrup:
- Get 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Get 1 1/2 cups water
- Prepare 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Get 1 teaspoon rose water
- Get Candied orange blossom (optional)
- Take 1/2 cup raw ground pistachios
- Get For garnishing:
Ashta is a clotted cream made from whole milk. It can be made at home, but, to be honest I highly prefer the ricotta cheese filling. See great recipes for Pancakes stuffed with ashta cream - atayef bi ashta too! Atayef are small, light, and fluffy pancakes.
Instructions 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.
In this recipe they are filled with ashta cream and served with sugar syrup. atayef stuffed with cream and walnuts. Atayef bil Ashta are Middle Eastern pancakes filled with fragrant, rose and orange blossom-infused custard. Chopped pistachios and sweet syrup finish these beauties, which are perfect treats for the month of Ramadan. Clotted cream or thick cream like this one, you can make a replacement using this recipe. When my ashta was finished, I made the left over batter and froze the atayef layered between parchment paper.
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