Recipe: Tasty Kataifi nests with the taste of pizza

Kataifi nests with the taste of pizza. Mini pizzas with a kataifi (shredded filo dough) base. • Kataifi pastry, also known as shredded and bird's nest pastry, resembles vermicelli. It is typically used to make sweet, syrup-soaked sweets, such as baklava. Make these sweet kataifi nests for your next dinner party.

Spicy Shrimp In Crispy Kataifi Dough, Kataifi Dough Pie With Cheese And Bechamel Sauce, Pizza Dough Muffin Pan Cinnamon Rolls. Kataifi is a traditional Greek dessert filled with nuts and covered in a honey syrup. Nothing will impress your guests more than these Greek nut pastry rolls made with Kataifi dough and drowned in You have the fantastic looking authentic Greek dessert on your table. You can have Kataifi nests with the taste of pizza using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kataifi nests with the taste of pizza

1. You need of For the nests-muffins.
2. Prepare 200 g of kataifi (shredded filo dough).
3. It's 100 g of butter.
4. Prepare 100 g of tomato sauce or tomato purée.
5. You need 100 ml of heavy cream.
6. Prepare 1 of egg, whisked.
7. You need of For the filling.
8. Prepare 6 slices of ham, finely cut.
9. Prepare 6 slices of Gouda cheese grated (or any other kind of cheee that melts).
10. Prepare 1/2 of pepper (green) finely chopped.
11. Prepare 1/2 of pepper (red) finely chopped.
12. It's of salt, pepper.

These pastry nests are a great. Kataifi is a delicious dessert, which like baklava is very popular among Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern nations. Repeat with the rest of the kataifi dough and filling. I just tasted this today at a local Greek Festival.

Kataifi nests with the taste of pizza step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C..
2. Pull apart the strands of kataifi shredded duogh to make them fluffly..
3. Melt the butter and brush a 12 muffin pan with it..
4. Divide the kataifi shredded dough into the cups and pour the rest of the butter on top..
5. Bake for 10-14 minutes (so that the kataifi doesn't get soaked when you add the tomato sauce)..
6. Add the finely cut ham, the finely cut peppers and finally, the grated Gouda cheese into the baked kataifi nests..
7. Mix the tomato sauce or the tomato purée with the heavy cream, the egg, salt and pepper and pour over the muffins (you will need about 2 tbsp per muffin)..
8. Bake for 30 minutes or until the nests are golden brown..
9. Remove from the oven, let them cool a little and remove from the pan carefully..

It was delicious and I'm thankful to find your blog so I can make it too! Be the first to review this recipe. These sweets use kataifi pastry (shredded pastry) and have nuts, honey, cinnamon sugar & a squeeze of lemon juice in them. Press remaining kataifi over the nuts, reserving remaining butter..taste of the middle eastern cuisine, a combination of some flavors like Ashta,mastic gum (mesteka), Salep powder and pistachios all in one can lead to a taste of heaven! After I made my first batch of Kataifi baskets I could not stop thinking about the possibilities of this new (for me) ingredient.