How to Prepare Mafrouka

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup coarse semolina
• 1 cup water
• Three quarters cup ghee or 100 grams
• 1 tablespoon orange blossom water
• 1 tablespoon rose water
• Cashews for garnish
• Almonds for garnish
• A pinch of pistachios for garnish
• Ashta or qaimar, to taste
• To prepare ashta or qaimar at home, here is this link: How to prepare ashta/qaimar – video

Method

1. Put the sugar in a pot over the heat until it caramelizes and melts.
2. Carefully add the water over it and stir until the sugar dissolves; then remove the pot from the heat.
3. In a skillet, toast the semolina until it turns golden.
4. Add the ghee to the semolina, then the orange blossom water, rose water, and the dissolved sugar; stir to form a dough.
5. Pour the dough into the serving dish, spread it out, and let it cool.
6. When cooled, spread the ready-made ashta over it.
7. Toast the almonds and cashews and decorate the top of the ashta.
8. Sprinkle a little ground Aleppo pistachio.
9. You may serve qatr (sugar syrup) or shireh alongside the mafrouka.
10. To prepare ashta or qaimar at home, here is this link: How to prepare ashta/qaimar – video