Levant

Qatayef

Name: Qatayef
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Levantine
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 3 tbsp fine semolina rava (semolina); 1 tbsp for batter 1 cup for syrup, 1/4 cup for filling sugar; 1 tsp instant dry yeast; 1 tsp baking powder; 3/4 cup warm milk; 1 1/2 cups water; 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts; 1 tsp cinnamon powder; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 2 tsp orange blossom water (orange flower water); Cooking oil (vegetable oil), for frying, about 80 g absorbed

Little Ramadan pancakes folded around walnuts, fried and dunked in orange blossom syrup.

75 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

Ramadan street stalls2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayYeasted pancakes filled with walnuts, fried and soaked in orange blossom syrup.

The original

350kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

2 gfibresame

75minutessame

Qatayef, Levantine Ramadan sweets.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1¼ cups

Rava (semolina)3 tbsp fine semolina

Sugar1 tbsp for batter, 1 cup for syrup, 1/4 cup for filling

Instant dry yeast1 tsp

Baking powder1 tsp

Milk¾ cup, warm

Water1½ cups

Walnuts1½ cups, chopped

Cinnamon powder1 tsp

Lemon juice1 tbsp

Orange blossom water (orange flower water)2 tsp

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)for frying, about 80 g absorbed

Method

5 steps

1Make the syrup: boil 1 cup sugar with 2/3 cup water 10 minutes, add lemon and orange blossom water. Cool.
2Whisk flour, semolina, 1 tbsp sugar, yeast, baking powder, milk and the rest of the water to a pourable batter. Rest 30 minutes.
3Pour 2 tbsp batter on a hot nonstick pan. Cook on one side only until the top is covered in holes and dry.
4Mix walnuts, sugar and cinnamon. Fill each pancake, fold into a half moon and pinch the edges shut.
5Fry until golden, drain and dip straight into the cool syrup.

Serve it like this

Arrange on a platter drizzled with syrup and scattered with crushed pistachios. Serve with mint tea after iftar.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Levant

Qatayef

Little Ramadan pancakes folded around walnuts, fried and dunked in orange blossom syrup.

75 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

Ramadan street stalls2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayYeasted pancakes filled with walnuts, fried and soaked in orange blossom syrup.

The original

350kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

2 gfibresame

75minutessame

Qatayef, Levantine Ramadan sweets.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1¼ cups

Rava (semolina)3 tbsp fine semolina

Sugar1 tbsp for batter, 1 cup for syrup, 1/4 cup for filling

Instant dry yeast1 tsp

Baking powder1 tsp

Milk¾ cup, warm

Water1½ cups

Walnuts1½ cups, chopped

Cinnamon powder1 tsp

Lemon juice1 tbsp

Orange blossom water (orange flower water)2 tsp

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)for frying, about 80 g absorbed

Method

5 steps

1Make the syrup: boil 1 cup sugar with 2/3 cup water 10 minutes, add lemon and orange blossom water. Cool.
2Whisk flour, semolina, 1 tbsp sugar, yeast, baking powder, milk and the rest of the water to a pourable batter. Rest 30 minutes.
3Pour 2 tbsp batter on a hot nonstick pan. Cook on one side only until the top is covered in holes and dry.
4Mix walnuts, sugar and cinnamon. Fill each pancake, fold into a half moon and pinch the edges shut.
5Fry until golden, drain and dip straight into the cool syrup.

Serve it like this

Arrange on a platter drizzled with syrup and scattered with crushed pistachios. Serve with mint tea after iftar.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Qatayef

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Qatayef

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