Dubai Fried Honey Pastry
For 2 pieces
Ingredients:
2 syrup-soaked fried honey pastries
4 eggs
130 g sugar
140 g anthotyro cheese (anthotyro cheese is a Greek cheese made from sheep's or goat's whey)
200 g cream cheese from goat and sheep milk
150 g pistachio butter
160 g approximately of kataifi pastry (depending on the baking dish you will use), (kataifi is a sweet made with shredded dough)
250 g milk chocolate
A little sunflower oil
For the syrup:
400 g sugar
400 g water
A few drops of lemon juice
1 pinch of vanilla
Instructions:
We take two small clay pots (approximately 14.5 cm in diameter) and spread a good amount of Vitam (margarine). Then, we add the kataifi pastry.
We also add a little bit of Vitam on top if desired and bake them in a moderate oven until it turns golden on top.
We take them out of the oven and start making the syrup. We bring all the ingredients to a boil for 5 minutes.
We pour it over the kataifi in the clay pots and let them cool.
We start making the cream.
We place the eggs and sugar in a double boiler over low heat and whisk them until they become fluffy and creamy, for about 5 minutes.
Then, we add the anthotyro cheese, the cream cheese and the pistachio butter and mix well until they become smooth.
We transfer the cream into a piping bag fitted with a nozzle.
We take the clay pots with the kataifi and spread some ground pistachios.
We add a layer of cream and place the syrup-soaked fried honey pastries on top.
With the piping bag, we try to fill the gaps in the fried honey pastry.
We make a layer of cream on top of the fried honey pastry.
We have melted the chocolate in a double boiler. We add the sunflower oil to make it runny and pour it over the clay pots to fill them with chocolate.
We pipe rosettes on top using a piping bag.
We place whole pistachios on top and sprinkle with ground pistachio.