Znoud El Sit

10 chips of Baklawa Pastry (Phyllo)
10 cups of Arabic cream (Kashta)
4 cups of oil for frying
4 cups of Arabic Syrup
lemon flower (optional) and minced pistachio to garnish

Take the Baklawa (Phyllo) Pastry and cut it into long stripes and 10cm wide.
Put each two stripes of the pastry on top of each other and half a stripe on top of the two but in a cross type.
Put two teaspoons of Arabic cream (Kashta) on top where the pastry stripes meet.
Fold the right and left side of the pastry on top of the Kashta and then roll it lengthwise around the Kashta.
Prepare all the pastry the same way then fry them in the oil until they get a golden color.
Take them out of the oil and put them in the Syrup after you have decreased the oil on them.
Decorate by putting some kashta on the middle top, some minced pistachio and lemon flower (optional).

For filling:(Ashta cream)
2 cups milk.
7 Tablespoons corn starch .
1 teaspoon vanilla essence.
5 Tablespoons sugar.
2 Tablespoons rose water.
1/2 cup Ricotta cheese or Cottage cheese.

Chopped pistachios.

For the syrup:

1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of honey
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 cinnamon stick
Finely ground pistachios for garnish (optional)