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Arab pastries

Delicious Arab pastries with pistachio.

Each little pastry is a work of art.
A thin layer of crisp kataifi pastry envelopes an ashta cream filling sprinkled with chopped pistachios and a golden syrup of saffron, creating a perfect combination of flavours and textures.

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Cost

10

euros

Rations

12

people

Preparation

50

minutes

Cooking

minutes

Difficulty

dificultad-media

Medium

Ingredients

500 ml milk
2 slices of sandwich bread
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon Carmencita orange blossom water
1 stick Carmencita cinnamon
250 ml water
250 g sugar
5-10 strands of Saffron Carmencita
250 g kataifi dough
50 g butter
100 g pistachio

Preparation

  1. Soak the bread with half the milk for 2 hours and pour the milk and bread into a pot.
  2. Add 1 stick of cinnamon and bring it to a boil.
  3. Mix the remaining milk in a glass with the corn starch and sugar, add to the pot and bring to a boil.
  4. Add orange blossom water and mix.
  5. Remove the cinnamon and cool.
  6. Mix the water, sugar and saffron herbs in a pot.

7. Roll up the katafi pasta, forming a nest and place it on a baking sheet.
8. Pour the melted butter on top.
9. Bake for 25 minutes at 180⁰C.
10. Pour the syrup on top, fill the nests with the cream and sprinkle with pistachios.

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