Aish El Saraya

{Ramadan Guest Post} – Aish El Saraya by Nisreen of ‘Kitchen Maestro’

Nisreen of ‘Kitchen Maestro’ is a master of food photography and styling. Today she is going to share with us a very wonderful Lebanese dessert ‘Aish El Saraya’. Aish el Saraya is a Middle eastern layered dessert recipe. Thick cream, Ashta is topped with caramelized bread toast, which is topped with chopped pistachio and rose petal jam. Yummy isn’t it? Nisreen is sharing with us a quick and easy recipe to make this droolicious and creamy dessert in no time. Try this out today for your Iftar party or include this in your Eid meal plan. I am sure you are going to love this dessert and will be make this again and again.

Nisreen says,

Ramadan Kareem to  all of you here who are observing the holy month of Ramadan 🙂 It was a big honor for me to get the chance to participate as a guest in this special Ramadan Event “JOY FROM FASTING TO FEASTING” held by a lovely food blogger Lubna Karim!

So today I am going to share with you one of my favourite Arabic sweets that is usually served in Ramadan which is called  “Aish El-Saraya ” A dessert that once you tried it, am sure you will fall in love with it! 🙂

It’s very simple to make dessert. This dessert mainly consists of 2 layers, one of them the base that is a caramelized toasted bread-toast, covered with a delicate smooth layer of thick cream (Ashta)** and finally topped with some pistachios and rose petal jam! this combination will add an interesting texture and flavor. Sounds Yummy ha! 🙂

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Ingredients need to make Aish El Saraya

(Middle Eastern Dessert)

• 10-15 pieces white bread toast
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 ¼ cup water
• 4 cups milk
• 5 tablespoons corn flour
• 170 g thick cream (Ashta)* I used Nestle cream
• 1 teaspoon rose water
• Some crushed pistachios and rose-petal jam for garnish

Yield: 6

Aish El Saraya

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Aish El Saraya is a layered middle Eastern dessert made with caramelized toasted bread, thick cream (Eshta), crunched pistachio and rose petal jam.

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Additional Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 10-15 pieces white bread toast
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 ¼ cup water
• 4 cups milk
• 5 tablespoons corn flour
• 170 g thick cream (Ashta)* I use Nestle cream
• 1 teaspoon rose water
• Some crushed pistachios and rose-petal jam for garnish

Instructions

How to make Aish El Saraya Recipe

1. Cut the white bread toast into small pieces, place them in an oven till they are toasted. let them cool then use a food processor to get a smooth toasted bread crumbs. set aside.
2.  In a medium size pan melt sugar with ¼ cup water over low-medium heat until it starts to caramelize and gets a nice golden-brown color, (around 5-8 minutes) keep stirring.
3.  Add the remaining water cup on the caramelized sugar gradually with caution and keep stirring tell the sugar melts completely. Be careful while adding water over the hot sugar so not to burn your self.
4.  When sugar starts to boil, turn of heat and pour it over the toasted-bread crumbs, mix well. set a side.
5. In A medium pot add milk , corn flour and mix well using a hand whisker so corn flour  dissolve completely.  Add Nestle thick cream (ashta) and keep mixing.
6. Place milk-ashta mixture on medium heat, keep stirring until consistency thickens (about 10-15 minutes).
7. Turn of heat, add rose water and stir.

How to assemble Aish El Saraya

1. In each cup add a layer of caramelized toasted bread first then a thick layer of ashta, and repeat one more time.
2. Leave to cool at room temperature then place cups in refrigerator to cool over night.
3. Before serving decorate with crushed pistachios and rose petal jam. Enjoy! 🙂

Notes

Serving Suggestion's:

Usually Aish El Saraya is served in one large platter, here I wanted to serve it in cups, thinking it would look more tempting and mouth watering! so every member of my family will enjoy his cup of aish el saraya till the last bite! and they did! hehehehe 😉

You can easily make ashta at home. Find my recipe for pure homemade Kashta or Ashta here.

FOR THE CANNED VERSION: 

I used Nestle's Cream, its thick cream usually called table cream here.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 698Total Fat: 18gSaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 51mgSodium: 452mgCarbohydrates: 119gFiber: 2gSugar: 74gProtein: 13g

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Thank you Nisreen for being part of this event and introducing us this creamy Arabic dessert.

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