Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand

Name: Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand
Yield: 20 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup All purpose flour or Maida; 1 cup Semolina or Rava; 2 teaspoon Baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon Instant Yeast; 2 teaspoon Sugar; 1 cup Warm Water; 1 cup Milk; 1/2 cup Yoghurt (beaten); 1/2 teaspoon Salt; Butter to grease the pan; For stuffing (shrikhand); 250 grams Hung curd or cream cheese; icing sugar if required(I didn't use); 1 tablespoon Orange blossom syrup(optional); Ground Pistachio as required; For sugar syrup; 1/4 cup Sugar syrup; 1/3 cup water; Few drops of Lemon juice; 1 teaspoon Rose water; 1 teaspoon Orange blossom water(optional)

Sabrina Yasmin @barak_kitchen

Riyadh

#Dussehra_Sweet
Have this wonderful middle eastern sweet with Indian flavor this dusshera. Katayef is a kind of sweet pan cake stuffed with cream cheese or hung curd. You can have them stuffed with our favorite shrikhand or cream cheese and some crushed pistachio.

Sabrina Yasmin @barak_kitchen

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Ingredients

20 servings

1 cupAll purpose flour or Maida
1 cupSemolina or Rava
2 teaspoonBaking powder
1/2 teaspoonInstant Yeast
2 teaspoonSugar
1 cupWarm Water
1 cupMilk
1/2 cupYoghurt (beaten)
1/2 teaspoonSalt
Butter to grease the pan
For stuffing (shrikhand)
250 gramsHung curd or cream cheese
icing sugar if required(I didn't use)
1 tablespoonOrange blossom syrup(optional)
Ground Pistachio as required
For sugar syrup
1/4 cup Sugar syrup
1/3 cup water
Few drops of Lemon juice
1 teaspoonRose water
1 teaspoonOrange blossom water(optional)

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Steps

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.
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Also add the beaten yoghurt and milk.
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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.
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When the prepared batter becomes frothy, starts making the katayef.
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Heat a nonstick pan, grease with little butter and pour 1 tablespoon of batter in the centre.
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The surface of the katayef should bubble a lot.
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If it doesn't bubble then adjust the batter by adding more water(one tablespoon at a time) to make the batter thin.
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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.
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Keep in a serving plate. Repeat the process with other pancakes or katayef.
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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.