How to Make Qashta with Semolina

Ingredients

• 1 liter water or 4 cups
• 3 cups powdered milk
• 1 teaspoon orange blossom water
• 1 teaspoon rose water
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• a pinch of mastic
• 1 and a half cups coarse semolina
• 1 tablespoon butter
• For serving:
• crushed cookies
• syrup or 'sheera'
• or
• honey
• Place them in a pot on the stove and stir until the mixture boils and thickens
• Grind the mastic with a pinch of sugar and add it after we turn off the heat.. because mastic, if boiled, gives a bitter taste
• Sprinkle crushed cookies in the serving glasses and pour the mixture into them
• Sprinkle more crushed cookies on top of the semolina qashta
• Let the dessert cool, then refrigerate it
• Serve it cold with syrup or honey
• Syrup method:
• Dissolve two cups of sugar in one cup of water
• Add a squeeze of lemon, a splash of rose water, and a little butter
• Let the syrup boil for a few minutes before removing it from the heat
• Serve the syrup cold
• Rania Salloum
• For more desserts, here is the link: Qashtaliya

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients except the mastic together
2. Place them in a pot over the heat and stir until the mixture boils and thickens
3. Grind the mastic with a pinch of sugar and add it after turning off the heat, because if mastic boils it gives a bitter taste
4. Sprinkle ground kaak into serving cups and pour the mixture into them
5. Sprinkle more ground kaak on top of the semolina qashta
6. Let the dessert cool, then place it in the fridge
7. Serve it cold with syrup or honey
8. Add a squeeze of lemon, a splash of rose water, and a little butter
9. Let the syrup boil for a few minutes before removing it from the heat
10. Serve the syrup cold