🇸🇾 Syria
Znoud el Sit
In Damascus the znoud come out for Ramadan evenings, baked in trays for the crowd rather than fried one by one.
🔪 Prep: 35 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
10 people
✨ What makes it special
Oven-baked and butter-brushed for a lighter crunch, the ashta perfumed with rose water and mastic.
Ingredients
- 14 sheetsphyllo dough
- 450 gashta cream
- 1 tsprose water
- 1 pinchground mastic
- 120 gmelted butter
- 350 mlcold syrup
- 40 gground pistachio
Method
- 1
Fold the rose water and mastic into the ashta.
- 2
Roll the cream in buttered phyllo into snug cylinders and line them up in a tray.
- 3
Brush generously with butter and bake at 180°C until bronzed.
- 4
Pour on the cold syrup out of the oven, dust with pistachio, and serve warm.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 10