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Halawet el Jibn

Name: Halawet el Jibn
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: 250g Mozzarella cheese; 100g Semolina flour; 150g Sugar; 250ml Water; 2 tsp Rose water; 1 tsp Lemon juice; 200ml Heavy Cream; 30g Pistachios

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Semolina-cheese dough rolled around cream and topped with syrup and pistachios — a famous sweet of Hama.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Halawet el jibn means 'sweetness of cheese' and is known as a famous sweet of Hama and Homs in central Syria. Melted cheese and semolina are kneaded into a stretchy thin dough, rolled around cream (ashta), and topped with rose water syrup and crushed pistachios. It's especially loved as a Ramadan night sweet.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Ramadan night, white rolled sweets topped with green pistachios line the display case of a Hama sweet shop.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Mozzarella cheese 250g
Semolina flour 100g
Sugar 150g
Water 250ml
Rose water 2 tsp
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Heavy Cream 200ml
Pistachios 30g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the sugar, water, and lemon juice, turn off the heat, add rose water to make syrup, and let cool.
Whip the cream stiff and chill.
Melt the mozzarella, cut small, over a water bath, add 4 tbsp syrup and the semolina, and knead until stretchy.
Roll the dough thin on parchment paper and cut into rectangles.
Add cream, roll up, slice, drizzle with syrup, and scatter with chopped pistachios.

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