Umm Ali Recipe

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Preparation time :     15 minutes
Cooking time :     20 minutes
Serves: 10 persons

Ingredients

8 pieces croissant or 600 g, medium size, cut into small pieces
3 tablespoons raisins
3 tablespoons desiccated coconut
3 tablespoons flaked almonds, toasted
3 tablespoons pistachio nuts, cracked
1 tin NESTLɮ Sweetened Condensed Milk or 397 g
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
4 cups water or 1 liter
1 cup liquid cream or 250 ml, whipped

Preparation

Combine croissant pieces, raisins, coconut, almonds and pistachio in a baking dish.

Place NESTLɮ Sweetened Condensed Milk , vanilla and water in a large saucepan and bring to boil then remove from heat and pour immediately over the croissant mixture in the baking dish and set them aside for 5 minutes or until croissants absorb the maximum of the liquid.

Place whipped cream in a piping bag and pipe the cream over the prepared mixture in the baking dish.

Place the baking dish in a preheated oven at 200�C using the grill part of the oven and grill for 5 minutes or until the cream topping is golden color. Serve it immediately.


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Pistachio Dates Truffles Recipe

The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Pistachio Dates Truffles Recipe. Enjoy Arabic Desserts and learn how to make Pistachio Dates Truffles.

Ingredients

1� cups date paste or 300 g
2� cups ground almonds or 250 g
1 tin NESTLɮ Cream or 170 g
1 cup ground pistachio nuts or 100 g

Preparation

In a large bowl, add and combine dates paste, ground almond and NESTLɮ Cream .

Mix all ingredients well until a soft dough forms. Cover and place the mixture in the fridge for 1 hour or to set. Roll the mixture into small balls.

Roll the balls in the ground pistachio and serve.

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Baklava with honey syrup recipe

The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Baklava with honey syrup Recipe. Enjoy Middle Eastern Desserts and learn how to make Baklava with honey syrup.

Ingredients (serves 8)

3/4 cup sesame seeds
4 cups (400g) walnuts, finely chopped
1/4 cup ground cinnamon
8 sheets filo pastry
100g butter, melted

Honey syrup
1 small lemon
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup honey
1 cinnamon stick
6 whole cloves

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200�C. Lightly grease a shallow baking tray.

2. Place sesame seeds in a small, non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cook, shaking pan gently, for 3 to 5 minutes or until golden and toasted. Transfer to a bowl. Add walnuts and cinnamon. Mix well.

3. Brush 1 pastry sheet with butter. Fold in half crossways to form a rectangle.

4. Sprinkle 1/4 cup walnut mixture evenly over pastry. Starting from one long end, roll up into a log. Brush with butter. Place on baking tray. Repeat with remaining pastry, butter and walnut mixture. Bake baklava for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Allow to cool on baking tray.

5. Make honey syrup: Peel 1 large strip rind from lemon. Remove the pith. Juice half the lemon. Place lemon rind, lemon juice, sugar, honey, cinnamon stick, cloves and 2 cups water in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes or until sugar has dissolved. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer gently for 10 minutes or until honey syrup thickens slightly.
6. Pour hot honey syrup over cold baklava. Stand for 30 minutes or until baklava has absorbed syrup. Cut each baklava diagonally into 3 pieces. Serve.

Source
Super Food Ideas - November 2005, Page 46
Recipe by Yianni Sourris

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Pistachio Baklawa

Learn how to make best oriental Baklawa recipe filled with Pistachio.

Ingredients

For the syrup:
2 cups sugar or 400 g
1 cup water or 250 ml
1 tablespoon lemon juice

For the baklawa:
15 sheets filo pastry, thawed if frozen
� cup butter or 150 g, melted
� cup caster sugar or 50 g
1 cup ground almonds or 100 g, mixed with the caster sugar

For the filling:
2� cups pistachio nuts or 375 g
1 tablespoon blossom water
2 tablespoons rose water
1 tin NESTLɮ Sweetened Condensed Milk or 397 g
3 slices toast bread, crust removed

Preparation

To prepare the syrup:

In a small pot, dissolve sugar in water and bring to boil then simmer until it becomes a syrup. Stir in lemon juice and set aside to cool.

To prepare the filling:

Combine all ingredients for the filling in a blender; beat until well combined and set aside.

To prepare the baklawa:

Grease a 40cm x 30cm oven tray, place 1 sheet of filo pastry, brush with butter and repeat the same with 5 more sheets.

Carefully spoon the filling all over the pastry.

Place 1 sheet of filo pastry to cover the filling, brush with butter and sprinkle with a little of almond mixture.

Top with another sheet. Sprinkle with little almond mixture and repeat method with the remaining sheets.

Brush the surface with melted butter, then cut parallel lines through pastry and filling to get diamond shaped pieces.

Bake in a 185�C preheated hot oven for 25-30 minutes or until it becomes golden color.

Pour the cool syrup over the baklawa as soon as it comes out of the oven.

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Fried Qatayef Bil-Kishta Recipe

Have you tried fried Qatayef during the month of Ramadan? Try this delicious Fried Qatayef Bil-Kishta Recipe and let your family and guests enjoy the best Ramadan desserts. Happy iftar.

Preparation time 15 minutes
Cooking time 20 minutes
Ingredients serves 10

1 tin NESTLɮ Cream or 170 g
2 cups milk or 500 ml
� cup corn flour or 60 g
1 tablespoon blossom water
20 large ready-made qatayef slices
2 cups oil for deep frying
3 cups sugar syrup or 750 ml
2 tablespoons ground pistachio nuts, for garnishing

Preparation

In a saucepan mix NESTLɮ Cream , milk liquid and corn flour. Bring to boil with constant stirring until it thickens. Stir in the blossom water and set it aside to cool into room temperature.

Place one full tablespoon of the cooled prepared cream in the middle of each qatayef slice and seal firmly.

Deep fry the qatayef in hot oil until golden brown. Remove from the oil using a slotted spoon to remove any excess oil and dip them immediately in the syrup for few seconds then remove and place on a strainer.

Garnish with ground pistachios.

Cooking tips : Sugar syrup must be at room temperature to maintain the crispiness of the qatayef.

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Qatayef Asafiri Bil-Kishta Recipe

Qatayef is on of the most popular desserts recipes during Ramadan. Prepare for the month of Ramadan and learn how to make delicious Ramadan Desserts.

Ingredients

1 tin NESTLɮ Cream or 170 g
2 cups milk or 500 ml
� cup corn flour or 60 g
1 tablespoon blossom water
40 small ready-made qatayef slices or 600 g
� cup ground pistachio nuts or 50 g, for garnishing
2 cups sugar syrup or 500 ml

Preparation

In a saucepan mix the NESTLɮ Cream , milk liquid and corn flour. Bring to boil with constant stirring until it thickens. Stir in the blossom water and set it aside to cool to room temperature.

Place 1 full teaspoon of the cooled prepared cream on each qatayef slice and seal firmly halfway keeping the cream shown from one side.

Dip each qatayef piece from the open side in the ground pistachio.

Arrange in a large platter and serve with the sugar syrup.

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