How to Make Heytliya Dessert?

Ingredients

• 4 cups milk
• 5 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup milk for syrup 2
• Ice cream
• Chopped nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, and pistachios
• 2 teaspoons rose water or orange blossom water
• Mastic to taste

Method

1. Put the milk in a small pot over the heat, stirring constantly until it begins to boil.
2. Dissolve the corn starch in a little water ..
3. Add the dissolved starch to the boiling milk, continuing to stir quickly over medium heat until the milk thickens to a custard-like consistency..
4. Add the mastic, turn off the heat, then add rose water or orange blossom water while stirring the milk well.
5. Pour the thickened milk into a baking dish and leave it to cool. Gently add very cold water to its surface, then place the dish in the refrigerator.
6. Prepare the condensed milk syrup by mixing liquid milk with a quantity of sugar, and continue stirring until the sugar dissolves completely.
7. Remove the dish after it has cooled well in the refrigerator, then cut the heytliya into medium-sized cubes and place them on the serving plate, then add the condensed milk on top with vanilla ice cream or milk.
8. Sprinkle coarsely ground pistachios or almonds over it and serve the heytliya cold.