Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Make the stuffing or shrikhand by combining hung curd/cream cheese with icing sugar (optional), orange blossom water (optional) and rose water. When the prepared batter becomes frothy, starts making the katayef. Katayef is a kind of sweet pan cake stuffed with cream cheese or hung curd.

Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand using 21 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand:

1. Take 1 cup All purpose flour or Maida
2. Take 1 cup Semolina or Rava
3. Make ready 2 teaspoon Baking powder
4. Take 1/2 teaspoon Instant Yeast
5. Make ready 2 teaspoon Sugar
6. Prepare 1 cup Warm Water
7. Get 1 cup Milk
8. Prepare 1/2 cup Yoghurt (beaten)
9. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Salt
10. Make ready Butter to grease the pan
11. Get For stuffing (shrikhand)
12. Get 250 grams Hung curd or cream cheese
13. Take icing sugar if required(I didn't use)
14. Get 1 tablespoon Orange blossom syrup(optional)
15. Prepare Ground Pistachio as required
16. Make ready For sugar syrup
17. Make ready 1/4 cup Sugar syrup
18. Get 1/3 cup water
19. Prepare Few drops of Lemon juice
20. Prepare 1 teaspoon Rose water
21. Take 1 teaspoon Orange blossom water(optional)

It is so soft and delicious, it melts in your mouth at first bite. We never used any kind of preservatives. This is a famous sweet eaten all-year round. £ It gives the Katayef a nice crunch and it has a slight fennel or anise flavor. Remove and place onto dry towel, without forming layers, and cover with towel so they don't dry out.

Steps to make Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand:

1. Combine warm water, sugar and yeast in a cup and set aside to broom.
2. Take a blender jar and add flour, semolina, salt and baking powder. Combine with a spatula.
3. When the yeast mixture blooms add to the dry mixture.
4. Also add the beaten yoghurt and milk.
5. Blend all the ingredients nicely to make a thick batter.
6. Keep the batter aside for an hour. Because of yeast the batter will be very frothy.
7. In the meantime make the sugar syrup by boiling sugar, water and other ingredients as mentioned above.
8. Just cook the syrup until the sugar dissolves completely. It should be thin flavorful syrup.
9. Make the stuffing or shrikhand by combining hung curd/cream cheese with icing sugar(optional), orange blossom water (optional) and rose water.
10. When the prepared batter becomes frothy, starts making the katayef.
11. Heat a nonstick pan, grease with little butter and pour 1 tablespoon of batter in the centre.
12. The surface of the katayef should bubble a lot.
13. If it doesn't bubble then adjust the batter by adding more water(one tablespoon at a time) to make the batter thin.
14. Cook only one side of the katayef till the bottom gets slightly golden brown. It will take abot a minute to cook the katayef. Don't overcook it.
15. Transfer to a samp cloth and cover it with the cloth to prevent the katayef from drying out.
16. Make all the katayef like this.
17. To make the shape take one katayef, pinch the edges together like the picture remaining one side open.
18. Stuff 1 tablespoon of the prepared shrikhand or cream cheese filling and sprinkle ground pistachio.
19. Keep in a serving plate. Repeat the process with other pancakes or katayef.
20. Just note that stuff the katayef when they are little warm to seal the edges properly. Also don't try to stuff when they are very hot. Stuffing may melt due to heat.
21. Serve these katayef accompanied by sugar syrup.

Place each Katayef on palm of hand. Qatayef is a staple dessert in the Middle East especially during the holy month of Ramadan. These stuffed and fried pancakes are the darling on dessert table. Qatayef / Atayef or Katayef is an iconic Middle Eastern treat, made from pancakes stuffed with nuts and golden fried then dunked is thick simple syrup. Combine cream cheese and sugar in the bowl of a stand-mixer (or in a large bowl if using a hand-mixer) and cream together until smooth.

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