🇸🇾 Syria
Halawet el Jibn
Born in Hama, perfected across Syria: stretchy sweet cheese dough rolled around ashta, drizzled with syrup.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Cheese kneaded with semolina and syrup into a satin sheet, ashta inside, rose petals on top.
Ingredients
- 400 gsweet cheese (akkawi, desalted)
- 150 gfine semolina
- 200 mlsyrup + more to serve
- 400 gashta cream
- 1 tbsprose water
- 30 gground pistachio and rose petals
Method
- 1
Melt the cheese gently, then work in semolina and syrup until it leaves the pan as one satin mass.
- 2
Spread thin on a syrup-brushed surface and cool slightly.
- 3
Pipe ashta along one edge and roll into a log.
- 4
Slice, dust with pistachio and rose petals, and serve with cold syrup.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8