Warbat ( ar, وربات), an Arabic sweet pastry similar to

baklava Baklava (, or ; ota, باقلوا ) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine. The pre- Ottoman origin of the ...

, consisting of layers of really thin phyllo dough filled with

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, though it is sometimes also filled with pistachios, walnuts, almonds, or sweet

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. The dessert is topped with a sweet syrup made from sugar, water, and a hint of lemon brought to a boil and then left to cool and thicken. When served with cream it is called warbat bi-qishteh or warbat be gishta. The treat is particularly associated with the religious holiday

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. It's also popular in

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, where it's also known by the name of Shaabiyat.

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{{Levantine cuisine Syrian cuisine Arab pastries Jordanian cuisine Palestinian cuisine

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