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.

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Ingredients of Kataifi nests with the taste of pizza

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

Preheat the oven to 180°C..
Pull apart the strands of kataifi shredded duogh to make them fluffly..
Melt the butter and brush a 12 muffin pan with it..
Divide the kataifi shredded dough into the cups and pour the rest of the butter on top..
Bake for 10-14 minutes (so that the kataifi doesn't get soaked when you add the tomato sauce)..
Add the finely cut ham, the finely cut peppers and finally, the grated Gouda cheese into the baked kataifi nests..
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)..
Bake for 30 minutes or until the nests are golden brown..
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.