Shaibiyat

Ingredients

• 3 cups of flour (dough)
• Half a cup of oil
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon of yeast
• A pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 2 tablespoons of sugar syrup (qatir)
• Half a cup of yogurt
• Half a cup of milk
• Ashta (qaimar)
• Cream (ashta):
• 2 cups of liquid milk
• 4 tablespoons of cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon of rose water
• 1 teaspoon of orange blossom water
• Put them on the stove until the mixture boils and thickens
• Sugar syrup:
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 cup of water
• 1 tablespoon of lemon (juice)
• 1 teaspoon of rose water
• 1 teaspoon of orange blossom water
• Shaibiyat recipe from a friend of the Sho Tabkhineen Al-Youm website:
• Zeina Al-Zein
• To follow all of Zeina's recipes, especially her special dessert recipes, click her name to visit her page on our site

Method

1. Knead the ingredients together well and leave the dough for about 4 hours until it rises well... Then divide the dough into 20 pieces
   Timers: 240 min
2. Roll out each piece of dough separately, sprinkling cornstarch or butter as desired between each layer and arranging them one on top of the other
3. Then roll them out, or flatten them all with a rolling pin, then roll them together to form a cylinder and cut them again into individual pieces.
4. Flatten each piece slightly and fill it with ashta
5. Brush the tops of the shaibiyat with butter or ghee, as desired, and place them in a preheated oven to bake.
6. Repeat brushing the tops of the shaibiyat 4 times until golden