Ekmek Kataifi
Author: Traditional
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Greek
Serves: 8
- 2 Cups Water
- 2 Cups Sugar
- Rind of ½ lemon
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 190 grams Kataifi pastry
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted.
- 2½ cups whole milk
- ½ tsp ground mastic (also known as mastika or tears)
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ cup fine semolina flour
- 1 tsp cornflour
- ¼ cup caster (superfine) sugar
- ½ cup shredded coconut
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cream stabilizer or powdered milk
- 3 tsp icing sugar or to taste
- 1 cup chopped unsalted pistachios for garnish
- Heat oven to 200C
- Grease and line a loaf pan with baking paper
- Tease pastry apart and press into the bottom of pan
- Brush with melted butter and place in oven til golden brown, about 10 minutes
- Place sugar, water and cinnamon stick in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Reduce head to medium and boil approximately 8 minutes until thick.
- Remove from the heat and add lemon juice and lemon rind.
- Pour hot syrup over cooled pastry base and set aside to cool
- Place milk and mastic into a saucepan and heat until boiling.
- In a large bowl add eggs, semolina, cornflour, sugar and vanilla and whisk well.
- Temper the eggs by adding 3 ladles of hot milk into the eggs, whisking all the time.
- Pour the tempered egg mixture into the milk and return to the heat, stirring constantly until thickened. Add coconut and stir.
- Remove from the heat and place cling film on the surface of the custard and set aside to cool.
- Pour cooled custard over cooled pastry and spread evenly. Leave at room temperature until fully cool and then refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Invert onto a plate and then invert again so the custard is on top and the pastry is on the bottom.
- In a clean bowl add cream, icing sugar and vanilla and whip until thick enough to pipe
- Place cream in an icing bag with a star tip and pipe rosettes to decorate.
- Garnish with chopped pistachios.
Recipe by Orgasmic Chef at https://orgasmicchef.com/ekmek-kataifi/
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