Snack · 50 min · middle-eastern

Halawet el Jibn

This is the kind of Middle Eastern snack you’ll make on repeat — mozzarella and semolina, 50 minutes, big payoff.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 1 lb Mozzarella
• 1 cup Semolina
• 1 cup Sugar
• 2 tbsp Rose water
• 1 tbsp Orange blossom water
• 2 cups Clotted cream
• 1/2 cup Pistachios

Steps

1. Simmer the sugar with water into a syrup; add the rose and orange blossom waters and cool.
2. Melt the mozzarella with the semolina and a splash of syrup over low heat, stirring constantly, until it forms a smooth, stretchy dough, about 10 minutes.
3. Turn onto a syrup-brushed surface and roll thin while hot — work fast, it stiffens as it cools.
4. Cut into rectangles, pipe a line of clotted cream along each, and roll into tight cylinders.
5. Chill 1 hour to set the rolls.
6. Slice on the bias and arrange on a platter; spoon over the fragrant syrup.
7. Shower with ground pistachios and serve cold; the stretchy cheese dough against cool cream is pure Levantine magic.

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