🇸🇾 SyriaCatalog recipe
Sweet cheese rolls filled with clotted cream, showered in pistachio and syrup — Hama's silken dessert masterpiece.
For 6 servings.
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Make syrup: sugar, water, lemon squeeze, rose water; cool it.
Melt cheese with semolina, a little syrup and water over low heat into a smooth, stretchy dough.
💡 Knead it warm — cooled cheese dough stops negotiating.
Roll thin between syrup-brushed sheets, pipe cream along one edge, roll and slice.
Chill, then serve drizzled with syrup under a green snow of pistachio.
From the city of Hama came this improbable invention: cheese kneaded with semolina into a sweet, stretchy dough. Syrian celebrations end here, with rosewater on their breath.
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