Ashta for dessert (sweet Lebanese clotted cream)

Name: Ashta for dessert (sweet Lebanese clotted cream)
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 liters full fat milk; 1 tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice; 2 cup full fat milk; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 2 tablespoons orange blossom water; 2 tablespoons sugar

Linda L. @lindzi

Lebanese

#ramadan
Most of Ramadan desserts in Lebanon are filled or topped with Ashta, which is a sweet clotted cream. Some examples like Kunafe, Qatayef, Znoud el Set, Layali Lubnan... and they're all to die for 🤤

There are many ways to prepare Achta at home.
Traditionally, it's made from the thin fat layer only that forms on top of the milk by boiling it repeatedly. But this recipe is one of the budget and easy ways to make it at home, same as my mum makes it.

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Ingredients

Section 2
2 litersfull fat milk
1 tablespoonwhite vinegar or lemon juice
Section 2
2 cupfull fat milk
2 tablespoonscornstarch
2 tablespoonsorange blossom water
2 tablespoonssugar

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Steps

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Section 1: heat milk in a pot. Once it’s warm (not hot or boiling!) add a tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar. When it starts boiling, turn the heat off and set aside.
2

The milk will separate and curdle. Remove that curdled cream and set aside to cool down.
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Section 2: In a saucepan, mix milk, cornstarch and sugar, off the heat, then move to medium/low heat while stirring continuously.
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Once the mixture is thick, add orange blossom water. Mix a bit for a few seconds, take off the heat, and combine with section 1.
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Let it cool down, in a large bowl, uncovered, before using it.
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A quick alternative is to skip section 1 and just prepare section 2.