Eish al saraya from Qatar (palace's bread)

 Eish al saraya is a dessert from the Middle East , made from bread and syrup with orange blossom water and rose water.

Eish al Saraya means Palace's bread, the name describes the freshness, softness and spectacular taste of this dessert. This is extra easy to prepare and there is no room for errors.

This is a typical dessert from Egypt, Lebanon or Qatar. I have seen several versions of the dessert, some of them use whipped cream for the white layer but the good version uses a unique custard cream.   

Eish al saraya from Qatar (palace's bread)

Ingredients:

- 3 Slices of bread.

- 115 g sugar.

- 90 g corn startch.

- 6oo ml milk.

- 250 ml cream.

- 1 teaspoon rosewater.

- 1 teaspoon orange blossom water.

- 100 g de pistachios.

Ingredientes Syrup:

- 200 ml water.

- 200 g sugar.

- 1 teaspoon rosewater.

- 1 teaspoon orange blossom water.

- A squeeze of lemon.

Method:

1- Roast the bread slices in a pan without oil.

2- Take a casserole and put all the ingredients for the syrup inside, heat until the sugar is dissolved, then add the squeeze of lemon and let cool.

3- Put the slices of bread on the base of a cakes mould, fill also the gaps with bread pieces.

4- Pour the syrop over the bread.

5- Take othe casserole , put inside the milk, cream and sugar, heat until the sugar is well dissolved.

6 - Take a bowl and mix the corn startch with some milk, once it is well dissolved add it to the mixture of milk and sugar.

7- Add rosewater and orange blossom water.

8- Put on a low heat and stirr until you see that the mixture thickens as you see in the picture.

9- Pour the cream over the bread and add some ground pistachio on top. Let get cool in the fridge at least for 2 hours. You should eat it cold.

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