Arabian pancakes. Don't think breakfast pancakes, but rather a dreamy, light, aromatic and sweet pudding, slicked with orange-flower syrup and nubbled with pistachios, to go after a vaguely Middle-Eastern dinner eaten languorously outside in the garden on a warm summer evening. Arabian Pancakes are made from flour, corn flour, yeast, and honey. It's a traditional Saudi Arabian dish, usually served with a cup of freshly brewed coffee.

What sets these pancakes apart is that they are cooked only on one side, the other side is velvety because it is covered with bubbles, this allows the flavors of the filling to permeate the atayef. These pancakes are traditionally either stuffed with a sweet cheese, or walnuts or clotted cream. These are stuffed with the ricotta cheese or areesheh that was made a couple of days ago. You can have Arabian pancakes using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Arabian pancakes

Prepare of For pancake.
You need 150 gms of plain flour.
You need 1 of spn powdered sugar.
Prepare 1/4 of spn baking powder.
You need 1/4 of spn baking soda.
Prepare Pinch of cardamom powder.
It's 3 of spn sour yoghurt.
It's 125 ml of skimmed milk.
You need 1 of large egg.
You need 50 gms of butter melted.
It's Handful of pistachios chopped for garnishing.

The batter is egg-free and only consists of flour, water and some yeast (and baking powder for extra leavening). Grease a frying pan with a little oil, pour into the pan half a ladle of batter. Spread the batter quickly into a thin pancake and fry over medium heat until the top bubbles, then turn over and brown the other side. Mix the sugar, cardamom and almonds together.

Arabian pancakes instructions

To make the pancake,take all the ingredients given into a large bowl. flour,butter,cardamon,sugar,baking powder and baking soda,stirring with the spoon pour the milk.Beat or mix into a fluffy batter till smooth..
Next,whisk in the egg, and stir continuously till smooth and fluffy..
Heat the oil in dry griddle add 2 tsp of pancake batter into a round shape with the back of the spoon. Before the batter sets properly. Flip them over and cook on the other side of the pancake till golden brown..
After it drizzle the handful of chopped pistachios over the top of the pancake. Ready to serve with tea..

Arabian Pancakes with Orange-Flower Syrup Enjoy Nigella Lawson's famous Arabian Pancakes with Orange-Flower Syrup from her Nigella Summer cookbook. A perfect, light dessert to follow a Middle-Eastern-style dinner. According to Claudia Roden, these Arabic pancakes are a medieval dish which has remained unchanged to this day. (Some things never change.) `Ataif are a festive sweet served during happy occasions and celebrations. I associate them most with Ramadan. Atayef are very similar to pancakes, they're made with flour, semolina, yeast, milk, baking powder, salt, sugar and you can also add vanilla or rose water if you like.