Znoud El sit

Znoud El sit is a a Lebanese sweet-fried phyllo dough, rolled into a cylindrical shell, and stuffed with kushta. It can be decorated with crimson jelly flour, sprinkled with finely crushed pistachio nuts, and topped with milk cream as an option.

Ingredients:

• 10 chips of Baklawa Pastry (20cm)
• 10 cups of Arabic cream (Kushta)
• 4 cups of oil for frying
• 4 cups of Arabic Syrup
  

Preparation:

• Take the Baklawa Pastry and cut it into long stripes and 10cm wide.
• Put each two stripes of the pastry on top of each other and half a stripe on top of the two but in a cross type.
• Put two teaspoons of Arabic cream (Kushta) on top where the pastry stripes meet.
• Fold the right and left side of the pastry on top of the Kushta and then roll it lengthwise around the Kushta.
• Prepare all the pastry the same way then fry them in the oil until they get a golden color.
• Take them out of the oil and put them in the Syrup after you have decreased the oil on them.
• Decorate by putting some kushta on the middle top and some minced pistachio.
• Don,t use the fresh Kushta for this recipe because it doesn't bare the heat and it will be harmful.