Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand
Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand

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Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand is something that I have loved my whole life.

FOR THE FILLING Cream Cheese Mozarella Cheese. Katayef is easy to make and requires few ingredients that is most probably there in your pantry. My favorite savory stuffing is with feta cheese and mint, you can also stuff them with browned minced meat.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand using 21 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand:
  1. Make ready 1 cup All purpose flour or Maida
  2. Make ready 1 cup Semolina or Rava
  3. Make ready 2 teaspoon Baking powder
  4. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Instant Yeast
  5. Get 2 teaspoon Sugar
  6. Make ready 1 cup Warm Water
  7. Take 1 cup Milk
  8. Prepare 1/2 cup Yoghurt (beaten)
  9. Get 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  10. Make ready Butter to grease the pan
  11. Get For stuffing (shrikhand)
  12. Make ready 250 grams Hung curd or cream cheese
  13. Get icing sugar if required(I didn't use)
  14. Get 1 tablespoon Orange blossom syrup(optional)
  15. Prepare Ground Pistachio as required
  16. Prepare For sugar syrup
  17. Make ready 1/4 cup Sugar syrup
  18. Make ready 1/3 cup water
  19. Prepare Few drops of Lemon juice
  20. Take 1 teaspoon Rose water
  21. Make ready 1 teaspoon Orange blossom water(optional)

In both Maharashtrian and Gujarati weddings, shrikhand is served in the thali meal. Qatayef (or Katayef, or Atayef) is an Arabic dessert dumpling filled either with a nut mixture or a sweetened cheese. It's is a special treat that provides an energy boost after Great recipe for Katayef with Kashta cream. Small, light and fluffy pancakes, with ashta cream filling, served with sugar syrup.

Instructions to make Katayef with cream cheese or shrikhand:
  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.
  4. Also add the beaten yoghurt and milk.
  5. 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.
  10. When the prepared batter becomes frothy, starts making the katayef.
  11. Heat a nonstick pan, grease with little butter and pour 1 tablespoon of batter in the centre.
  12. The surface of the katayef should bubble a lot.
  13. If it doesn't bubble then adjust the batter by adding more water(one tablespoon at a time) to make the batter thin.
  14. 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.
  19. Keep in a serving plate. Repeat the process with other pancakes or katayef.
  20. 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.

Make Indian Shrikhand (recipe below), which is a sweet strained yoghurt dish that incorporates sugar - I prefer to use honey or rice syrup, nuts and fruit. Add dry fruits, elaichi powder and fruit slices to perk up the taste and health quotient. This shrikhand is silky, smooth, creamy with a hint of saffron flavor and crunch of nuts. Here is the pic of the ingredients required to make shrikhand with greek yogurt. Two of them are the main ingredients (yogurt and sugar).

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