🇱🇧 Lebanon
Aish el Saraya
Beirut's clever leftover trick turned banquet piece: yesterday's toast becomes the softest thing on the dessert table.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Caramelized sugar syrup with lemon soaks the toast dark amber; thick ashta and pistachio finish it.
Ingredients
- 300 gtoast or brioche, dried
- 300 gsugar
- 400 mlwater
- 1 tbsplemon juice
- 1 tbsporange blossom water
- 500 gashta cream
- 50 gground pistachio
Method
- 1
Caramelize the sugar to deep amber, then carefully add water and lemon and simmer into a caramel syrup.
- 2
Layer the dried toast in a tray and ladle the hot syrup over until every piece drinks its fill.
- 3
Press gently into one even layer and cool completely.
- 4
Crown with ashta, scatter pistachio, and chill before slicing.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8