🇱🇧 Lebanon
Znoud el Sit
A Tripoli sweets-shop classic: cream rolled tight in phyllo, fried to order so the shell shatters while the heart stays cool.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
8 people
✨ What makes it special
Double-wrapped phyllo, fried golden and syruped hot, finished with pistachio and candied orange blossom.
Ingredients
- 12 sheetsphyllo dough
- 400 gashta cream
- 80 gmelted butter
- 300 mlcold syrup with orange blossom
- 40 gground pistachio
- to tasteoil for frying
Method
- 1
Layer two buttered phyllo strips, set a finger of ashta at one end, fold the sides in, and roll a tight cylinder.
- 2
Seal the seam with a dab of butter and chill the rolls 15 minutes.
- 3
Fry in hot oil until deep gold on all sides.
- 4
Dip straight into cold syrup, then shower with pistachio and serve at once.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 8