katayef Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon of yeast (ferment)
• 6 cups of milk
• 3 cups of fresh  cream
• 3 cups of home made cream
• 3 cups of minced walnut
• 1 cup of powdery sugar
• 1 tablespoon of rose water
• 2 tablespoons of orange-flower water
• 1/2 cup of lemon jam
• 1/2 cup of fine pistachio
• 6 cups of frying oil
• 3 cups of Syrup

Preparation:

1. Mix the flour,yeast (ferment) and the milk until you get a soft and combined dough.
2. Keep it aside until it gets double the size.
3. Fill the pouring bad (that has a steel head) with part of the dough.
4. Start pouring small circles on a steel pan you have put on the fire.
5. You can make the circles as big or as small as you like.
6. After 1 minute of pouring the circles turn the cream to the other side for 2 seconds and then we take them off the steel pan.
7. Mix the finely minced walnuts with the powdery sugar, rose water, orange-flower water.
8. Take 1 teaspoon of the mixture and distribute it at the middle of the cream .
9. Do the same thing with the cream, take 1 table spoon and distribute at the middle of the Katayef.
10. You can make 6 of the walnut mixture and another 6 of the cream filling, it depends on the quantity you want from each.
11. Close the Katayef (with the filling inside) to make a half moon shape. Close it tightly by pressing on the edges of the dough.
12. Fry the filled Kateyef with the oil until it gets a golden color.
13. Take them out and put them in the Syrup for few minutes.
14. Take them out of the Syrup and serve them hot.