Comments on: Ramadan Recipes: Atayif

By: peppy

peppy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:49:58 +0000

I love Atayif. Thank you for the recipe.

I’m going to try stuffing the Atayif with icecream and shallow fry it in hot ghee for a minute and serve it with chocolate sauce. Let’s see if it works.

The other day I stuffed the Atayif with homemade mango jam (Mangad – especiality of Goa) and shallow fried it in ghee – it was scrunchilicious! accompanied by green tea with lemon.

- Peppy, Doha Qatar

By: Sara Haddad

Sara Haddad — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:28:36 +0000

Awesome recipe I can’t wait to try it out!

By: paul

paul — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:31:24 +0000

Looks so yummy

By: ayahthari

ayahthari — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:54:42 +0000

a delicious cake, let alone to break the fast

By: jamelle

jamelle — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:06:50 +0000

To Thomas Bonasera,
In my family (Lebanese) they always pronounced the arabic word for water pipe as ‘arghili’. I have noticed that my father drops the first consonant off most nouns, and often sticks an ‘i’ where there is usually an ‘a’. For example, baklawa is baklawi, etc.

We are from Massachusetts, so in English he doesn’t pronounce his ‘r’s either!

By: arbell

arbell — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:52:52 +0000

i just had both cheese and nuts in my favorite sweets-shop in the galeely. i think the one with cheese is better, but my favorit ramadan sweet is the one that’s like malabi on top of stringy kadayif.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:04:46 +0000

I just had them the other night at an Iftar that I went to here in Nablus. The walnut ones were beyond amazing!!! Since Ramadan started every morning on my way to school I watch them make the little pancakes at all the bakeries that usually make and sell bread. Today I was annoyed because I was desperate for bread but all i could find at the bakeries were people making the pancakes and they wouldn’t let me buy any until later in the day either. Maybe they knew I wasn’t fasting and would eat them for breakfast on my way to class.

By: Thomas Bonasera

Thomas Bonasera — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:02:40 +0000

We used to pick these up in East Jerusalem during the four years we lived there. I would love to have them again. Might make them this weekend. Is it colloquial _Jerusalem_ Arabic that gives “Atayif”? I remember an old Palestinian man told me “Narghila” (water pipe, hubbly bubbly, shisha) was “Arghila” in colloquial Jerusalem Arabic.

By: Laila El-Haddad

Laila El-Haddad — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:41:08 +0000

Of course, Jehad, how could I neglect that!! I am speaking from my mom’s “softer” side

In Gazan dialenct, for those not following, all “Q” sounds are pronounced “ga”.

By: jamelle

jamelle — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:43:39 +0000

Great recipe! I will try it this weekend. Looks great.