Easy Homemade Shaibiyat

Ingredients

• 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

1. Cut the pastry into squares, and stack about 8 or 10 squares on top of each other.
2. Fill them with a little of the previously prepared ashta and fold into a triangle shape.
3. 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.
4. When the pieces are golden, pour cold sugar syrup over them and garnish with pistachios.
5. Let them cool and serve.
6. Ashta (cream):
7. Dissolve the cornstarch in cold milk.
8. Put them in a pot over medium heat and stir until the cream thickens.
9. Add orange blossom water and rose water, stir, remove the filling from the heat, then let it cool before using.
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11. For more Arabic desserts from Rana, here are easy Znood Al-Sitt