Atayef with Homemade Ashta

Ingredients

• The batter:
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup farina
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon orange blossom water
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• The ashta:
• 1 liter milk or 4 cups full-fat liquid milk
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 5 tablespoons farina
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• Ashta method:
• This delicious and easy recipe is from a friend and cook from the Shou Tabkhin Today website:
• Alisar Rajab
• Click on Alisar's name to visit her personal page
• Also from Alisar, here is Macaroon Dessert
• For more sweets that will impress you, here is the following link: Basbousa with Toffee
• And from the Arab kitchen, here is the best kunafa at the following link: Mozzarella Cheese Kunafa

Method

1. Mix the dry ingredients except the baking soda, then add the water gradually while mixing well to obtain a relatively loose batter.
2. Let the batter rest a little while you prepare the ashta and the sugar syrup.
3. Just before frying the batter, add the baking soda and stir.
4. In a nonstick pan, pour a little batter to form a disc about 5 cm in diameter (or to your preference); wait until all the bubbles appear on the surface and the bottom is colored, then remove it from the pan.
5. Continue with the rest of the batter in the same way and keep the finished discs covered with a clean cloth so they stay soft until the whole batch is done.
6. Fill the atayef with the pre-cooked ashta after it has cooled to room temperature, fold them into semicircles, then fry the atayef in oil.
7. Remove the atayef from the oil and drain them, then dip them in cold syrup.
8. Elissar Rajab
9. Also from Elissar, here is the macaroon dessert.
10. For more desserts you'll love, here is the following link: Basbousa with Toffee.
11. From the Arab kitchen, here is the best kunafa at the link: Kunafa with Mozzarella Cheese.