Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, kellaj. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kellaj is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Kellaj is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Transfer to serving dish, sprinkle with icing sugar and decorate with pistachios and orange blossom jam. Fry the Kellaj in warm oil, then remove from oil and strain well. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve hot.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have kellaj using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kellaj:
- Make ready 500 g phyllo dough sheets
- Get For filling:
- Get 4 cups milk
- Prepare 2 cups semolina
- Take 2 cups sugar
- Take 1 tablespoon corn flour
- Get 1 tablespoon orange blossom water (mazahr)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon rosewater
- Prepare 1 teaspoon meskeh, powder
- Take oil for frying
These Lebanese pastries are made only for the holy month. Phyllo dough is rolled out into small squares. Ashat/cream is added onto the square dough, then sealed before frying. Once they come out of the fryer, you'll let them dry from the oil.
Instructions to make Kellaj:
- To prepare the filling, mix the milk and semolina in a pot over heat and stir continuously until it boils. Add sugar, corn flour and meskeh. Stir until mixture becomes thick.
- Remove mixture from heat, add orange blossom water and stir well. Pour directly into a rectangular dish thus forming a thin layer of cream (kashta) around 2 cm thick. Leave to cool for 1 hour.
- When the filling solidifies, cut into medium cubes (10 * 15) cm each.
- To prepare the dough, cut each sheet of dough into rectangles double the size of the filling cubes.
- To prepare the Kellaj, put one cube of filling in each piece of dough. Close dough from both sides over the filling thus covering it and forming a square shape.
- Fry the Kellaj in warm oil, then remove from oil and strain well. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve hot.
One of the most top rated dishes in Dubai, Kellaj is consistently the top of the pick. It is essentially a charcoal grilled bread filled with Haloumi cheese. It is ideal for a snacking on and fills up the stomach. Definitely try this for a quick bite! Ramadan is renowned for the variety of Sweets prepared and consumed during this holy Month to satisfy the post Iftar sweet cravings.
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