How to Make Warbat Dessert: Middle Eastern Sweets

Warbat is an Arabic word, also known as Shaabiyat, which is a sweet dish and looks like baklava. It is made of think layers of phyllo dough filled with custard, nuts, or sweet cheese and topped with sweet syrup (made of mint, water, sugar, and lemon). The recipe is originated from Jorden and called warbat bi-qisteh serves in Mediterranean restaurants,especially in Ramadan.

How to make Warbat dessert?

Warbat is easy to make and an instant recipe that is popular all around the world and known as Middle Eastern dessert. The procedure consist of the following contents:

For making syrup (Ater)

Sugar: 2 cups
Water: 1 cup
*9/Orange blossom water: 1 tbsp.
Lemon juice: few drops

For milk pudding (Ashta)

Whole milk:2 cups 
Heavy cream:1 cup 
Sugar:6 tbsp.
Corn starch:4 tbsp.
Flour:2 tbsp.
Orange blossom water:1 tbsp.

Other ingredients

Fillo dough: 1 packet
Sweet cream butter: 1 cup

Preparation of Syrup (Ater)

You can go-ahead to start making the recipe warbat with syrup. Take a pan to add water and sugar in it, stir until sugar dissolves, then boil it on a medium flame for 5 minutes. It will get a thick syrup. Add few lemon drops and again boil it for the other 5 minutes, now turn off the flame and stir in it the orange blossom water and let it set.

Preparation of milk pudding (Ashta)

Take a non-stick pan and add corn starch, flour, sugar, milk, and heavy cream stir until everything is mixed and makes a better. Now turn on the stove and cook the better on medium flame until it boils while keep stirring so that couldn’t stick to the base of the pan. When it turns into a pudding, turn off the flame and pour it into Pyrex pan and cover with Saran wrap. Let it cool in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Making of warbat

Pre-heat the oven on 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Now lay out the filo dough and brush each layer with melted butter. You should remember to cover the rest of the dough with a damp cloth; otherwise, it will dry out. Make five layers top of each other and cut the dough into six squares now pour 1 tbsp Ashtaat the middle of each square and fold it into triangles. Take a baking tray and brush it with butter and place all the triangles and also brush them with butter.
Now bake them in the middle rack of the oven until they turn golden brown, remove from oven and pour cold Ater and serve with pistachio on top. Warbat is available at Halal Restaurants you can taste them.