Desserts
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Easy Homemade Shaibiyat
Homemade Shaibiyat — an unbelievably easy recipe using ready-made phyllo pastry and a simple cream filling. No need to buy Ramadan sweets when you can make them this easily.
Easy homemade Shaibiyat — for this recipe use ready-made phyllo pastry and the cream filling; it couldn’t be easier.
Ingredients
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- Phyllo (baklava) pastry sheets
- Melted butter
- Sugar syrup
- Crushed roasted pistachios
- Cream filling
- 2 cups milk
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- A splash of orange blossom water and rose water
- Dissolve the cornstarch in the cold milk.
- For more Arabic sweets from Rana try Easy Znood al-Sitt
Method
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- Cut the pastry into squares, and stack about 8 or 10 squares on top of each other.
- Fill them with a little of the previously prepared ashta and fold into a triangle shape.
- Place the easy homemade shaibiyat squares in a baking tray greased with butter or ghee mixed with oil, then baste them with melted butter and put into the oven.
- When the pieces are golden, pour cold sugar syrup over them and garnish with pistachios.
- Let them cool and serve.
- Ashta (cream):
- Dissolve the cornstarch in cold milk.
- Put them in a pot over medium heat and stir until the cream thickens.
- Add orange blossom water and rose water, stir, remove the filling from the heat, then let it cool before using.
- Rana Jarkas
- For more Arabic desserts from Rana, here are easy Znood Al-Sitt
Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalVegetarianGluten freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Easy Znood al-Sitt
