Khleuwe Jeben or cheese halva (Lebanese version) summer-winter sweetness (master class)

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Khleuwe Jeben or cheese halva (Lebanese version) summer-winter sweetness (master class)

Category: Dairy and egg dishes

Kitchen: Lebanese

Ingredients
Cheese	500 g
Measure 100 grams and measure everything for it:
Small semolina
Water
Sugar
Flower water	2 tbsp
Atar: (can be replaced with honey!)
Sugar	1 st
Water	0.5 st
Flower water	2 tbsp
Filling optional
Ashta, cottage cheese or others

Cooking method

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• The recipe is dedicated to the cheese makers of the forum, to all beginners and even to those who still have no idea what they will be !!!
• Of course, it differs from the usual halva, but I recommend trying it even without flower waters, it diversifies the diet and opens up new possibilities for using cheese
• Often I hear from newbies cheese makers that mozzarella is already boring, and I want something new !!! This is exactly the option when you can harvest cheese without salt, just freeze it until the right moment!
• We use cheese, not salty! The preparation for mozzarella is perfect, that's what I use and recommend !!! Another type of solid is also suitable, just that they would not be in the brine. Then it needs to be kept for several days so that it melts perfectly during cooking !!!
• Soaking the cheese doesn't help !!!
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• Let's get started !! It is better to start with atara, it should be dense in density, which means that it should be cooked in advance, and preferably a day in advance!
• Atar - mix one part of sugar, with half of the water from the sugar mass, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice or quite a bit of lemon acid and a couple of tablespoons of a mixture of flower water available!
• Put on high heat and boil until lightly thickened, when it cools it will thicken even more!
• It is advisable to cook the dough itself in a dish with a thick bottom so that the desired temperature is maintained longer!
• We measure out 100 g with a measure: water and sugar; add, if desired, a mixture of flower and rose water a couple of tablespoons and bring to a boil.
• I have chosen this measure
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• Knead, chop, chop (as it is convenient for anyone) finely cheese and mix with boiling water ... (everything is still done over high heat) ... And mix thoroughly all the time (it is convenient for me with a wooden spatula), maybe someone will do a whisk! We have to turn it all into one liquid mass! We interfere continuously!
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• (it happens that a cheese blank, especially for mozzarella, does not want to mix with water in any way, you need to melt the cheese to the maximum limit!)
• As soon as the cheese mass is ready, add the semolina and knead even more intensively,
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• as soon as the semolina has connected with water and cheese, immediately turn off the heat and beat everything well straight, whipping with a spatula, stirring it until the mass begins to fiber and acquires a lighter shade), but the main dough is collected in one lump!
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• Knead a couple of minutes without fire, until the dough hardens ... Leave the dough to cool down a little, and in the meantime, pour the atara on a tray or table ... Spread the ball and start stretching it with your hands or rolling it to the desired thickness ...
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• It depends on what we want ready-made ?!
• Attention here you need to be careful, we never mix the dough with atar !!! Stretched a little and can be folded in two layers, so that the syrup is only on top and bottom or only on the bottom while we stretch the dough !!!
• Part of my family loves a little rubber-fiber bread, especially when caramelized with atar. You can call it natural chewing gum ... Part I do just that, and part of the dough is slightly thicker and less atara to wrap with filling!
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• Part of it I make a spider web practically ...I grease a little on top with my hand with atar, the dough will slightly stale and I start tearing it straight with my hands into pieces and we can immediately get such a plate without bothering any more, just adding ashta and pouring atar with a thin stream! (this is such a lazy option, but no less tasty than others)!
• Now you can get confused and wind up like our pancakes as in the main photo!
• Or like this, like a roll using ashta, cottage cheese or whatever you like! At the moment we are using ashta and spin these sausages and freeze them in the freezer
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• then cut into convenient portions or shapes!
• I got this mix option
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• if desired, you can decorate traditionally: fisto and caramelized lemon flowers
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• how we were served in the house of sweets!)
• The frozen version of KHLEUVE ZHEBEN is somewhat reminiscent of ice cream! Which is very suitable even in hot weather! what we indulged in today and ate in Ramadan almost every day, while I got my hands on the skill of this sweet!
• I hope that at least someone will dare to repeat this recipe! Do it at least once, you won't regret it !!!!

The dish is designed for

700 g

Time for preparing:

15 minutes

Note

Ashta is an oriental milky sweet that is included in many recipes for Arabian sweets! If you cook the old fashioned way, it's just skimmed cream from hot milk! While the milk is boiling, all the resulting foam is constantly removed in a separate bowl!


Now we have learned to do a little differently, there are many different ways from adding acid and getting sweet fat curd and so on .. Who can manage to make the cost as low as possible!

If someone loves raw sweet dough, she herself is such a lover, you can slightly increase the amount of water, sugar and semolina, then the dough will not be so fibrous, but also more liquid, but elastic and easier to obtain a uniform layer when stretched !! Then for such a mass of cheese, you can take a measure of up to 150 grams! Try looking for your favorite HLEUVE JEBEN!

Thank you for waiting for the recipe, this is a test directly milking the whole family with a local Internet

Here are visual videos of how it is done in local candy houses




Happy viewing !

The magic dough turns out! The boy stretches it so beautifully! Does the cheese have to be hard? Can you replace cottage cheese?

You are right, it is magical. Cheese blank can be used !!!
For many years I didn’t eat the purchased Khleuwe Jebne, until I started cooking myself, tried many recipes and ratios, the one I displayed seems to be the most successful ratio, many appreciated and confirmed ...
In the houses of sweets, there is too much semolina ... Some have a ratio of 1: 1 zhebne to semolina

And what is a cheese preparation?

Everything, you are caught, join the cheese makers, look at this recipe, you will understand a lot

https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=392292.0
Cheese preparation for mozzarella - rolled whole milk with rennet, heated twice to a certain temperature and strained curd! The strained curd is the preparation of cheese!

Katya, I am reading your recipes, and the thought does not leave me - how lucky your husband is! Look for such craftswomen!

Katya, I am reading your recipes, and the thought does not leave me - how lucky your husband is! Look for such craftswomen!

No, Dopletochka, I'm not at all like that, he needs a more calm and not nevgamonna madam !!!
Especially my experiments annoy him, the translation of products (this is when I figure out how it is impossible to make this or that dish, but the good news is there are chickens! I do not mind cooking for them sometimes, but my husband does not understand how it is!)
But when I complained to our girls here that it annoys him when they call him a milkman, they called me the Milk Fairy
And during this Ramadan, the local Arabs nicknamed Malake Hleuwe Jeben (Queen Khleuwe Jeben) so while it's quiet at home))))
So it is already possible to think over a new diet for chicks

[katerix]

katerixI've been looking at your recipes for a long time! And I'm learning from you! I am slowly mastering cheeses.And now such a great recipe! I haven't even heard of this before!
I will try to do it and unsubscribe. No flower water - what can be replaced? Maybe some fragrant freshly squeezed juice like raspberries, currants, cherries, apricots? Or will this all not work?

Thank you Natalia
Better not replace anything, except the usual vanilla ... And when serving, decorate with fresh berries, since you have a season
Earlier, KHLEUVE ZHEBEN reminded me of a cold cooled dumpling ... That's what you love dumplings with, and do it !!!

Katya, thanks! I will do so! Next Saturday I make cheese, I stand it and start rolling cheese dough

I'm waiting for the report! God forbid everything will work out and you will like it

I forgot to write, maybe you need to correct in the text itself, ATAR can be replaced with HONEY !!! It's just that it's a very expensive pleasure here, and they use a lot of sweets!

Katerina, what a delicious name! And the videos are just magical! As a kid with a test, he is simply managed to learn and you can learn from him! And what did he lubricate his hands with - oil?

[katerix]

katerix, vooot ... that's what I will do - both the benefit and the honey aroma ...

Katerina, what a delicious name! And the videos are just magical! As a kid with a test, he is simply managed to learn and you can learn from him! And what did he lubricate his hands with - oil?

Natalia is glad that you liked at least the name now, I hope that the dessert itself will not disappoint if you try
And hands are lubricated all the time with hot atar !!!
Even the most fat-free cheese fits here, but the main thing is that it melts well!

[katerix]

katerix, vooot ... that's what I will do - both the benefit and the honey aroma ...

Yes, yes, absolutely right before, they probably used only honey!
So maybe you can change the recipe a little:
try to remove the sugar, just boil the water, add the cheese, then the semolina, and when the honey has cooled down a little, so that the healing properties are not lost ... Or make it fresh, and then pour abundantly on a tray and stretch it in it !!! Only honey should not in any way interfere or knead with the dough, otherwise all work can turn into porridge !!!

[Catherine]

Catherine, Thank you for the video. Now EVERYTHING became clear. The stuffed pancakes look very exciting.

The most understandable thing is that the work is not a girl's!

With the video everything is much clearer !!! And then one name can scare and seem out of control, but the business of all is, when everything is prepared, for 15 minutes I can't even believe how fast everything happens

In small portions, it is very subject to girls

[katerix]

katerix, Katya, I thought to mix honey with warm water - like honey atara ... Or just liquid honey, but it's very sticky - I'll stick to the dough ...

No, no, just fresh thick honey should have a consistency when it is still pouring !!! With a vein atara, the dough can turn into porridge!
Fold the dough in half until the top layer is greased with atar or honey!
The dough behaves in this way when you grease it with honey or atar, whether it be butter, ordinary dough !!!

[katerix]

katerix, Katyusha, I am delighted with these recipes! How you discover a new planet! I can't get it right now, but I will definitely try to perform it! I will consult! There will be time and opportunity, add something else interesting to better understand what it is, Lebanese cuisine!

I'm glad, but unless I can compete with you, what and how many recipes you post, the jaw disappears ... And the photos are such pro, and the components ... Oh, I am always delighted with pleasure !!!
From the first recipe it was clear that a person treats the recipe and business with all responsibility !!!
Now I have a little time, while my are on vacation, and so milking me it is a feat to put something out ... Mamul has been wrinkling to exhibit since 2012 and only now have hands reached ...
Lebanese cuisine is not complicated at all, the main thing is to know the ingredients, and so many products are translated behind seven locks to achieve what you want, that my husband sometimes does not stand up, but if something new is mastered, to my taste, then I will definitely share

as well as recipes for seven locks

Katya, that's why your recipes are so valuable to me personally - you try to understand a lot from the video with individual cooking fragments, speak an unfamiliar language and try to figure out how to do it ...I just tried to figure out one pie with cheese and herbs - I still don't know the composition of the dough, I tried it, but it didn't work out ... And you have everything written in detail and very clearly ...

I would never do HLEUVE JEBEN for myself, since I am not a sweet tooth until I argued with my husband's sister ...
Sometimes it hurts me when people tell me that my products are expensive ... When I say that they are wrong and I sell at cost, they do not believe !!
And new technologies have come here, like butter from vegetable fats and any other milk milk, which is already being said in my homeland, but here it is not yet known ... And I have a dead-end situation ... my farm is on the verge of bonkrotism , because I do not allow myself various tricks for the sake of profit!
You always have to give proof by your own example, arrange an MK ... But people are still more worried about prices than the quality of the product!
There was a joke, I asked my sister to teach me how to do it ... She showed me once and it didn't work out on my cheese ... She said that the cheese was not the same, and so several batches of chickens were thrown out straight, because it happened during fasting ... freaked out and said that I would leave whatever it was for dinner, they say, it's enough to transfer the food without trying it !!!
And from the purchased from her everything works out perfectly, ALMOST AS IN THE HOUSES OF SWEETS ...
And then came my finest hour, I accidentally forgot that box with them .. Her husband arrived a couple of days later and called my husband after dinner and gave out: - Katya, your hryuwe zheben under No. 6 is exactly what you need !!! Write it down and do it according to this recipe !!! For this is exactly what they did before!
My husband was quietly in shock because he does not believe in my wisdom of inventions or considers me a competitor! (he used to be praised by everyone here, but here he brought a foreigner and she bypasses the locals in many ways! Sometimes he doesn't like it ... And when the children ask him where is Katya's house ?! He answers them with a grin: - in Ukraine, and here she is he lives in Farouk's house !! So maleho, he envies me girls, but I like it)
So I had n8 -n10 as well, while I drifted to the ideal ratio !!! After which I decided to put it here, so that my husband would eventually be proud of me;)
He visits the site, sometimes looks at my recipes, what they write; he looks at the views, amuses himself that it’s not in vain that I’m doing all this and sometimes I’m useful !!!
And she proved to her sister that her cheese was not made from 100% natural products, the price is proof of that, and the finished sweetness is different in consistency ... Although delicious !!!
And I am for healthy and natural food, so I keep my farm for the sake of natural products !!!
I hope my confusion sorted out

Katya! Hold on, you are great! Thinking about the future! More like-minded people for you

Thanks for the support!
To achieve the result you need to pass a lot of tests !!! Almost like natural selection and so gradually you become your business or idea
Oh, this site helped me find a new me, a year ago I didn’t believe that I could master HLEUVE ZHEBEN, and 10 years ago I would never have believed that I could find so many friends abroad, albeit thanks to forums, but this is such a support when in realities you are one on one against the hostile army !!! But such is life, which is why it is beautiful and unpredictable

Katya, you are great! I think that my husband is still proud of you at heart, just like most men are afraid to show it. But the time will come and he will openly praise you. So, dare to our joy and death to the enemy. I am glad that you are experimenting and trying to achieve an original taste.

Oh, Natasha, but it seems like I answered your message, but now I see that he is not
Natasha, thank you for your support and attention: rose: ... The fact of the matter is that he shows off his wife in front of others, and oppresses at home ... In many ways, he does not support until he sees the result, it’s a shame at such moments .. But that's all we are not perfect, and for me already as a sign, the more dissatisfied at the beginning, the louder the success later

Girls, I didn't want to write on the first page (so as not to embarrass the men), and then the plan was forgotten ... Troshki hondru in the summer !!!

So about ATAR, it seems like nowhere was written how it can still be used for our female purposes for beauty, the old Arabic depilation recipe !!
This time I did it by accident, at first a decent lemon of acid splashed ... while I went to call the children and forgot about the syrup on the stove ... I turned it off, let it cool and realized that I had a local natural depilatory girl_red:
Here you can do without flower waters if purposefully
So, this is an excellent tool for removing unnecessary hair in the right places !!! The effect is better than wax !! IMHO
For such a case, then add a little more lemon juice or, even better, lemon acid and boil until caramel color! Allow to cool to a slightly warm state, so that you can shift with a spoon!
Or they check the readiness in water while they are boiling, take a small batch with a spoon and pour a little into ice water ... They look at how frozen it is, for viscosity and stickiness! (How cool it is in water, take it out and knead it with your hands, if it does not stick to the moment, does not spread, keeps the given shape (for example, a ball), then our product is ready!) ... Then turn off the heat and let the whole syrup cool!
Cut the cling film 20x20cm, or as you like, spread the boiled atar in small portions, for example, the layer thickness is no more than 0.5 cm.Pour it so that it turns out to be completely wrapped in our film and then it was convenient to work and was enough for the whole procedure.
Allow to cool completely, wrap now and store in the refrigerator, a convenient drawer ... Better to use no earlier than a day! Here at a time they can cook for half a year in advance !!! Make multiple plates and use as required. Stored for a long time! But now many are too lazy to cook this, they buy ready-made!
Then we start the procedure! You can immediately try to knead it in your hands or keep it a little at room temperature ... Whoever tries it for the first time, roll a ball with a diameter of no more than 3 cm, knead to the state of plasticine, the color will change to cloudy ... And now we apply to the desired area!
The resulting softened ball, with the thumb, is applied to the skin in the direction of the hair, pressing well, giving the shape of a strip, slry at least 2 mm and sharply tearing in the opposite direction to hair growth ... And so quickly apply and tear off until the syrup starts strong melts and sticks to the body (this is possible in the heat!) or it will not be completely clogged with hairs ... Then knead the next portion and continue the procedure ...
When you get used to it, it will take you no more time than electric devices, and even faster !!!
If suddenly it is not clear, I can put it in pictures