Easy Lebanese Nights Dessert

Ingredients

• 3 cups powdered milk
• 7 cups water
• 1 1/4 cups fine semolina, or farina
• Ashta cream for the second layer
• Pistachios for garnish
• Syrup:
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• A few drops of rose water and orange blossom water
• How to make the syrup:
• This special dessert is from our friend and cook at the Shou Tabkhin Today website:
• Alisar Rajab
• Click on Alisar’s name to visit her personal page
• Also from Alisar, here is Macaroon Dessert
• Wheat Dessert with Milk is one of Alisar’s wonderful recipes

Method

1. Mix the milk, water, and fine semolina cold, then put them in a pot over heat, stirring until they boil and thicken.
2. Pour into a Pyrex dish and let them cool to room temperature, then spread a can of qimeer (clotted cream) over the top.
3. Garnish with crushed or ground pistachios and place the Pyrex in the fridge for at least two to three hours or until the dessert is well chilled.
4. Serve Layali Lubnan with the syrup.
5. Put the sugar and water on the heat, stirring until it boils... remove any foam that appears on the surface.
6. Then add rose water and orange blossom water and let them boil for an additional 5 minutes.
7. Finally add a squeeze of lemon and let them boil only a little, about one minute, then turn off the heat.
8. Serve the syrup cold with the dessert.
9. Alissar Rajab
10. Also from Alissar, here is the macaron dessert.
11. The wheat dessert with milk is another wonderful recipe from Alissar.