Qatayef ( Ateyf) (Arabic Sweet)

Ingredients

Plain Flour: 1 ½ cups

Sugar: 1tsp

Warm water: 1 ½ cups

Instant Yeast: 1 tsp

Salt:  a pinch

Filling

Cinnamon powder: ½ tsp

Walnuts chopped: ½ cup

Almonds & pistas chopped: ¼ cup

Sugar powdered 2 tbsp

Sugar Syrup

Sugar: 2 cups

Water: 1 ½ cups

Lemon juice: 1tbsp

Rose water/orange blossom water: 2tsp

Oil for deep frying

Method Of Preparation

Sugar Syrup

Dissolve sugar in water in heavy pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally.

Bring to boil, add lemon juice and boil over medium-low heat for 12 minutes. Once syrup has begun to boil, do not stir again, as this makes the syrup cloudy.

Add orange blossom water (or rose water), boil 30 seconds longer. When cool, the consistency should be similar to thin honey.

Filling

Mix nuts sugar and cinnamon

Pan cakes

In a bowl add flour, instant yeast, water sugar and salt. Combine it well. Consistency of pan cake batter. Let it rest in warm place for an hour.

Heat a non stick tawa and add one ladle of the batter and close and cook it. Do not flip and cook. Make all the pan cakes and set aside.

Take each pan cake and add 1tbsp filling to it and fold and pinch the edges well to make a crescent shape.

Heat oil in a pan and deep fry all the stuffed pan cakes.

Dip the fried Qateyf’s in sugar syrup for 1 0r 2 minutes and take out and arrange it in a serving plate.

Dates-Cashews Ladoo

Ingredients

Dates: 1cup

Cashews roasted: 2 cups

Par boiled rice: ½ cup

Coconut: 1 cup

Method Of Preparation

Remove the seeds from dates and microwave it for 1 or 2 minutes to make it soft.

Roast the par boiled rice and grind to fine powder and sieve. Keep it separate.

Grind the roasted nuts. Then add dates to it and pulse it once more.

Transfer it to a bowl. Add powdered rice and coconut to it. Mix it well with hand and make small ladoos.

If you add enough dates for binding then you can skip coconut.

Potato Stuffed Bun

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour: 1 ¾ cups

Warm Milk: ½ cup
Milk Powder: 2tbsp
Warm Water: ¼ cup (or as required)
Roux:2tbsp (3/4tbsp Flour + 1/4cup water, combine and cook till you get a smooth paste)
Sugar: 1 ½ tbsp
Salt: needed     
Oil: 2tbsp             
Melted Butter: 4tbsp or olive oil
Yeast: ¾ tsp

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Olive Oil: 2tbsp

Potato cooked and mashed: 3 potatoes

Pepper powder: 1tsp

Jeera powder: 1tsp

GARAM masala Powder: ½ tsp

Salt: as needed

Turmeric powder: a pinch(optional)

Green Chilli: 2

Coriander leaves chopped: 1tbsp

White sesame seeds: needed

Egg: Egg wash

Method Of Preparation

Sieve the flour, then add milk powder, sugar, yeast and salt. Then add the oil and roux and mix together. Now add all the milk. Starts kneading together and gradually add water a little at a time. You might not need it all, so add it sparingly until your dough is nice and soft. Add butter or olive oil in between while kneading the dough. Knead for 8-10 minutes. The more you knead it the softer the bread will be.

Touch a bit of oil with your fingertips and apply all over the ball of dough. Cover in a bowl and set aside for 40mins to an hour for it to double in size.

Punch down the dough. Take a baking tray and grease it or line with butter paper.

Heat oil in a pan, add chopped onions when it turns translucent add in chopped chilli, and then add garam masala powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder, jeera powder and salt. Stir it and add mashed potatoes to it and sprinkle little chopped coriander leaves. Stir and mix well and switch off the flame. Let it cool.

Divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Take each ball and flatten it a bit and add in 2tbsp or more as per the ball size potato mix to it and seal it well and keep inside the palm and roll well to make it a ball. Make the same with the other dough’s too. Place it in a baking tray and apply egg wash on top and sprinkle with white sesame seeds.

Bake in pre heated oven at 160 Deg C to about 30 -35minutes or till done.