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Qatayef

🇵🇸 Palestine

Qatayef

In Palestine and Jordan the fried, nut-filled qatayef rules the iftar sweet table.

🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium

Cooking for

6 people

What makes it special

Sealed full, stuffed with walnut-cinnamon (or cheese), deep-fried and soaked in syrup.

Ingredients

  • 300 gflour and fine semolina mix
  • 1 tspyeast
  • 200 gwalnuts, chopped
  • 1 tspcinnamon
  • 2 tbspcoconut or sugar
  • to tasteoil for frying; syrup

Method

  1. 1

    Make and rest the batter; cook one-sided pancakes.

  2. 2

    Fill with the cinnamon-walnut mix and pinch fully closed.

  3. 3

    Fry until bronzed and blistered.

  4. 4

    Bathe in cool syrup while hot; serve within the hour.

🍽 On your table

How this dish looks served for 6

On your table

How Qatayef is made elsewhere