Half Moon Dessert – Stuffed Fried Pancakes
These lovely Half Moon Dessert or Stuffed Fried Pancakes recipe are so much a like churros in spain or the fair food dessert.
It’s a famous dessert served on Ramadan and feasts, stuffed with nuts or with cream and pistachio. I filled it with 2 differents filling almonds with coconut and cream with pistachio.
My dough is easy no ferment dough, just blend the ingredients and made the pancakes, then stuffed and fry it. I also dipped it in a sugar syrup which gave a delicious taste dessert.
This recipe has different names in middle east, Atayef, half moon desserts, Qatayef and stuffed fried pancakes. I called it half moon Atayef dessert 
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Half Moon Dessert
INGREDIENTS
- All purpose flour(1 and ½ cups)
- Semolina (¼ cup)
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 and ¼ cup warm water
- Sugar 1 tablespoon
- 1 tbsp yeast
- 2 tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt
For filling:
- ½ cup Crushed almond
- Grated coconut(2 Tablespoon)
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- a ¼ Tsp ground cinnamon
For cream filled:
- Thick cream(½ cup )
- Crushed pistachio(¼ cup)
For sugar syrup
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 ½ cup water
- 1 Tsp lemon juice
- A tablespoon of rose water or vanilla extract
INSTRUCTIONS
- In blender, place the liquid ingredients then the dry ingredients, to ensure nothing stick on the bottom.
- Blend all together until you have a liquid dough as the crepe dough.
- In a hot skillet on medium heat pour about 1/4 cup of the dough as a pancake. Wait until the top of pancake dry and the bottom getting blond. Repeat.
- To make the syrup: place sugar and water in a saucepan. Cook on high heat and when it boiled reduce heat to medium. Add lemon juice and stir until the syrup thicken. Then add rose water and remove from heat.
- Mix almond with coconut, sugar and ground cinnamon.
- Fill the pancakes with the filling, or fill with cream and pistachio. Close the pancakes firmly.
- Fry in a hot oil for 10 second on each side. Get rid of extra oil, then dip in a sugar syrup.
- Enjoy!
