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Jordanian Qatayef

Name: Jordanian Qatayef
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Jordan
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 1/2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tbsp Sugar; 300ml Water; 150g Walnuts; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 200g (for the syrup) Sugar; 1 tsp Lemon juice; 1 tsp Rose water; To taste Vegetable Oil

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small pancakes cooked on one side, filled with nuts or cheese, and drenched in syrup — a sweet of Ramadan.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Qatayef is a special sweet made only during Ramadan, the month of fasting: small pancakes cooked on one side only are filled with walnuts and cinnamon or sweet cheese, fried or baked, and soaked in syrup. On Ramadan nights, sweet shops on street corners sell stacks of qatayef pancakes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Ramadan night in Amman, lights glow outside a sweet shop as people buy the little pancakes cooked one after another on a griddle.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

All-purpose flour 200g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Baking Powder 1/2 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Water 300ml
Walnuts 150g
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Sugar 200g (for the syrup)
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Rose water 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the flour, yeast, baking powder, sugar, and water and let rise 30 minutes.
Pour batter about 10cm across into a hot frying pan and cook on one side only until bubbles form and the top is dry.
Boil the sugar and 100ml water, then add lemon juice and rose water to make syrup.
Crush the walnuts and mix with cinnamon and a little sugar.
With the cooked side out, wrap the walnuts in a pancake, fold into a half-moon, and seal the edges firmly.
Shallow-fry in plenty of oil and dip in the syrup.

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