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Lebanon
بقلاوة
Layers of paper-thin phyllo brushed with butter and filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios, baked crisp then drenched in lemon- or rose-scented sugar syrup. One square, cut diamond-small, is the shared Ottoman dessert of the whole eastern Mediterranean.
Syria
بلح الشام
Choux dough piped through a fluted nozzle into hot oil and soaked in cold sugar syrup while still hot.
Syria
بلورية
Fine shredded kadaif pastry pressed flat around a thick pistachio layer, baked pale and soaked in syrup.
Syria
فطائر جبنة
Small Syrian pastry rounds hold brined white cheese and bake until the dough is crisp at the edge and tender inside.
Homs, Lebanon
حلاوة الجبن
Soft cheese dough rolled around ashta, cut into small pieces and drenched in orange-blossom syrup with pistachios; an Egyptian form of the Levantine sweet.
Syria
كليجة
Small pastries filled with date paste, walnut or a sweet aniseed dough, baked for Eid.
Nablus, Palestine
كنافة
Sweet cheese pastry with vermicelli-like kataifi dough, soaked in sugar syrup, often topped with pistachios, crispy shredded dough with melted cheese center and proper syrup soaking, a beloved Arab dessert.
Syria
صفيحة
Small open-faced pies of dough topped with minced lamb, tomato, onion and pomegranate molasses, baked hot and fast.
Syria
زنود الست
Filo rolled around ashta cream, deep-fried and dipped in syrup, then dusted with pistachio.