Preparation of Qatayef dough

Ingredients

• Two cups of flour.
• Two small spoons of sugar.
• One tablespoon of corn flour
• Two cups of water – it should be warm/ you can use warm milk instead.
• Half a cup of semolina.
• One large spoon of yeast.

Preparation Method

• Put all the previous ingredients in the electric mixer, mix them well, then put them in a bowl and leave them to ferment for no less than a quarter of an hour.
• Pour a cup of the prepared dough into a non-stick frying pan, and leave it to brown.
• Take out the dough from the pan when you notice that its color has turned golden, and you see bubbles in each circle.
• Put it on a cloth and let it cool down.

Preparing Qatayef with cream and nuts

Ingredients

• Half a kilogram of medium-sized Qatayef, or small-sized Qatayef (can be prepared at home as described above).
• Half a liter of whipping cream.
• Half a cup of pistachios, or any kind of nuts – as desired.

To prepare the syrup

• Two cups of sugar.
• a glass of water
• A tablespoon of lemon.
• Half a teaspoon of cinnamon – to taste.

Preparation Method

• To prepare the syrup, mix all its ingredients except for the lemon, and put it on the fire until it boils, then add the lemon to it, stir the syrup a little, then remove it from the fire and set it aside.
• roll the Qatayef in the form of empty fingers, that is, in the form of a funnel, and press it from the closed lower end until it sticks well.
• Beat the cream with an electric beater until it becomes thick, then add the sugar and stir well.
• Stuff the katayef fingers with the prepared cream, and then decorate them with nuts.
• You can stuff them with custard cream as shown in the video below.
• Serve with the syrup.