Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, atayef: nut stuffed pancakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Atayef are Middle-Eastern Pancakes made with very basic ingredients. They are stuffed with a variety of fillings like cheese or nuts and topped with a rose-water flavored simple syrup. Throughout Lebanon and the rest of the Middle-East, you will find Atayef at every local bakery during Ramadan.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook atayef: nut stuffed pancakes using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes:
- Take For the batter:
- Get 2 cups flour
- Take 2 1/2 cups warm water
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon dried yeast, dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm water
- Make ready 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 2 teaspoons sugar
- Make ready 1 tablespoon rose water
- Take Walnut stuffing:
- Prepare 300 g walnuts, coarsely ground
- Make ready 9 tablespoons sugar
- Prepare 2 tablespoons rose water
- Prepare 2 tablespoons orange blossom water
- Get Sugar syrup:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups water
- Get 1 teaspoon rosewater
- Get 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
- Make ready 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Get 6 cups vegetable oil for frying
These stuffed and fried pancakes are the darling on dessert table. Qatayef / Atayef or Katayef is an iconic Middle Eastern treat, made from pancakes stuffed with nuts and golden fried then dunked is thick simple syrup. Crunchy sweet and oh boy so satisfying dessert. A delicacy in honor of Judith.
Instructions to make Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes:
- 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 pour the syrup in 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 walnut stuffing: mix all the ingredients together and set aside for later use.
- 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.
- Put 1 tablespoon of the walnut stuffing on the uncooked side of each pancake. Fold pancake over the filling in the shape of half-moon and firmly press the edges together to seal.
- Fry the atayef pancakes in batches in hot vegetable oil until both sides are golden. Remove on a kitchen absorbent paper. Pour the sugar syrup over the atayef while they are still warm.
- Serve at room temperature or cold.
Though atayef are labor intensive, their delicate and delicious flavor is well worth the time spent in the kitchen. The rosewater syrup is an acquired taste; you can replace it with orange flower water for a different, but equally delicious flavor. Half-moon shaped dough filled with nuts and dipped in sugar syrup. So these are Middle Eastern all time favourite sweet specially for Ramadan Kareem. These stuffed pancakes are a favorite all over the Middle East.
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