Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, atayef: nut stuffed pancakes. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Atayef are Middle-Eastern Pancakes made with very basic ingredients. They are stuffed with a variety of fillings like cheese or nuts and topped with a rose-water flavored simple syrup. Throughout Lebanon and the rest of the Middle-East, you will find Atayef at every local bakery during Ramadan.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook atayef: nut stuffed pancakes using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes:

1. Get For the batter:
2. Take flour
3. Get warm water
4. Take dried yeast, dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm water
5. Get baking powder
6. Make ready sugar
7. Make ready rose water
8. Prepare Walnut stuffing:
9. Take walnuts, coarsely ground
10. Get sugar
11. Get rose water
12. Make ready orange blossom water
13. Take Sugar syrup:
14. Make ready sugar
15. Make ready water
16. Take rosewater
17. Prepare orange blossom water
18. Make ready lemon juice
19. Prepare vegetable oil for frying

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. Crunchy sweet and oh boy so satisfying dessert. A delicacy in honor of Judith.

Instructions to make Atayef: Nut Stuffed Pancakes:

1. To prepare the sugar syrup: put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Leave to boil then add the lemon juice and keep on medium heat for 10 min until the syrup thickens. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and pour the syrup in a large bowl.
2. To prepare the batter: mix all the ingredients together. Leave to rest for 3 hr at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator.
3. To prepare the walnut stuffing: mix all the ingredients together and set aside for later use.
4. To prepare the atayef pancakes: delicately pour 1 large serving spoon of batter on a slightly greased pan. You should have an 8 cm diameter pancake. Cook on one side only. Bubbles will form on the surface of the dough. The pancakes are ready to be removed when the bubbles burst and the bottom of the pancake is slightly brown. The pancakes should be firm enough to be filled but they shouldn't be fully cooked. Repeat with the rest of the batter.
5. Put 1 tablespoon of the walnut stuffing on the uncooked side of each pancake. Fold pancake over the filling in the shape of half-moon and firmly press the edges together to seal.
6. Fry the atayef pancakes in batches in hot vegetable oil until both sides are golden. Remove on a kitchen absorbent paper. Pour the sugar syrup over the atayef while they are still warm.
7. Serve at room temperature or cold.

Though atayef are labor intensive, their delicate and delicious flavor is well worth the time spent in the kitchen. The rosewater syrup is an acquired taste; you can replace it with orange flower water for a different, but equally delicious flavor. Half-moon shaped dough filled with nuts and dipped in sugar syrup. So these are Middle Eastern all time favourite sweet specially for Ramadan Kareem. These stuffed pancakes are a favorite all over the Middle East.

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