🇪🇬 Egypt
Aish el Saraya
Cairo serves aish el saraya by the slab in dessert shops, richer and sweeter, sometimes under a blanket of torched cream.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
10 people
✨ What makes it special
Honeyed caramel with vanilla, a thicker bread base, and cream browned under the broiler before chilling.
Ingredients
- 400 gwhite toast, crusts off
- 250 gsugar
- 100 ghoney
- 400 mlwater
- 1 tspvanilla
- 600 gthick cream
- 50 gpistachio and hazelnut, chopped
Method
- 1
Caramelize the sugar, then loosen it with water, honey, and vanilla into a dark syrup.
- 2
Soak the toast in the syrup and press into a deep dish in two layers.
- 3
Spread the cream over and pass under the broiler until blistered gold.
- 4
Chill for two hours and serve heaped with nuts.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 10