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A flavorful, and easy make ahead dessert that I like to serve to my guests after an elaborate meal. The Ashta ingredient (Arabic thick cream) can be homemade or you can use the ready-made cans sold in middle eastern grocery stores.
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Ingredients
- 7 cups milk 2% preferable
- 1 cup coarse semolina
- 1/8 teaspoon mastic mix & mash with 1/8 teaspoon sugar (use mortar)
- 1/4 cup Orange Blossom water
- 1 1/2 cups ashta Arabic thick cream
- 2 cups unsalted pistachios crushed
Orange Blossom Syrup
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon Orange Blossom water
- leaves of attar or rose geranium optional
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Orange Blossom Syrup
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Instructions
- Combine both the milk and semolina and cook over medium heat stirring constantly until it thickens to the consistency of a pudding
- Mix in both the finely crushed mastic and orange blossom water and bring to a quick boil
- Pour the pudding into a flat 1 inch deep serving platter
- Let it cool slightly then spread the Ashta evenly over it
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours
Orange Blossom Syrup
- Dissolve the sugar in the water and cook over medium heat until the syrup thickens a bit about 10-12 minutes.
- Add the lemon juice and orange blossom water and cook for another 3 minutes
- This step is optional, I add few leaves of attar of rose geranium, to enhance the flavor a bit more
- Cool the syrup and refrigerate
Serving
- Both the syrup and pudding should be cold enough before serving
- Just before serving, generously spread the crushed pistachio over the pudding
- Cut into individual pieces and serve it with a drizzle of the scented syrup.
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