Recipe: Delicious Mafroukeh

Recipe: Delicious Mafroukeh Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Mafroukeh. Mafroukeh (China Squirrel) Previous Next Show Grid. This rich Lebanese dessert is traditionally made using clotted cream, while some cooks use. Mafroukeh is basically a semolina-based pistachio concoction, with a paste-like texture, that is both creamy and crunchy, with floral notes from orange blossom and rose water.

Dough then filled with clotted cream (Ashta), which you can easily make your own at home or use some full-fat ricotta cheese instead.

Mafroukeh is a traditional Lebanese dessert that combines semolina dough and ashta—clotted cream that is often flavored with orange blossom and rose water.

The dough is usually made by blending semolina flour, orange blossom and rose water, butter, (optionally nuts), and sugar syrup until the desired consistency is achieved.

You can have Mafroukeh using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mafroukeh

1. It’s 2 cups of semolina, or knafeh mafroykeh.

2. You need 1/2 cup of butter.

3. You need 1 cup of powdered sugar.

4. You need 1/4 cup of pistachios, ground.

5. It’s 1/4 cup of almonds, roasted, and peeled.

6. Prepare 1/4 cup of raw pine nuts, roasted.

7. Prepare 1/4 cup of syrup.

8. You need 1 tablespoon of rose water.

9. It’s of kashta:.

10. It’s 2 cups of powdered milk.

11. It’s 2 tablespoons of corn flour.

12. Prepare 2 tablespoons of sugar.

13. Prepare 1 tablespoon of orange blossom water.

14. Prepare 4 cups of water.

15. It’s of Syrup:.

16. You need 1 cup of sugar.

17. It’s 1/2 cup of water.

18. Prepare 1 teaspoon of orange blossom water.

19. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice.

Cut the butter into cubes and add it to semolina, stir well until the butter melts and gets absorbed by the semolina.

Add the powdered sugar over the mixture and stir until the semolina turns dark brown.

Pour the syrup and the rosewater over the mixture.

Mafroukeh(مفروكة) Ingredients Semolina, Water, Powder milk, Butter Ghee, Sugar, Kashtah( Cream of the milk), and on the top Almond & Cashew nuts.

Mafroukeh instructions

1. To prepare the syrup, stir the sugar and water in a pot over heat..

2. When it starts to boil, add lemon juice and leave until it thickens. Then add orange blossom water, turn off the heat and set aside to cool..

3. To prepare the kashta stuffing, dissolve the powdered milk in water, and heat 2.5 cups of dissolved milk in a pot..

4. Stir the corn flour and sugar into the rest of the dissolved milk and add them to the pot over heat..

5. Stir the mixture over heat continuously. When it thickens, add orange blossom water and move the stuffing aside..

6. To prepare the mafroukeh, roast the semolina in a pan over medium heat for 5 minutes..

7. Cut the butter into cubes and add it to semolina, stir well until the butter melts and gets absorbed by the semolina..

8. Add the powdered sugar over the mixture and stir until the semolina turns dark brown. Pour the syrup and the rosewater over the mixture..

9. Stir the mixture for 5 minutes until u have a soft firm dough then turn off the heat and set aside to cool..

10. To serve, spread the mafroukeh dough in a serving plate, spread the kashta stuffing over it and sprinkle with roasted almonds, pine nuts and pistachios..

11. Serve cold..

The best of the Kashtah product very rich and tasty.

Mafroukeh (ma-frou-ké) is a traditional Lebanese dessert made of s emolina, sugar, and butter infused with sugar syrup, orange blossom, and rose water.

It's topped with a milk-based cream filling called eshta or ashta.(but you can definitely use ricotta cheese instead.lighter and easier) and roasted nuts.

This challenge was thrown my way by my hubby and one that I totally accepted.

Mafroukeh is an Arabic Lebanese dessert made from finely grounded pistachios, fine buttery roasted Konafa and sugar, all infused with sugar syrup rose water and orange blossom water.