Which Lebanese sweet is a syrup-soaked rolled pastry filled with clotted cream?

Which Lebanese sweet is a syrup-soaked rolled pastry filled with clotted cream? Znoud el-sit is the answer.

The dessert consists of thin filo pastry wrapped around qishta, a thick clotted-cream filling. The rolls are fried until crisp, soaked in qatir syrup, and commonly finished with pistachios and dried rose petals. Orange-blossom water often perfumes the syrup.

Znoud el-sit is eaten across the Levant and also appears in Iraqi and Omani cuisines. In Lebanon and neighboring countries, it is especially associated with Ramadan iftar, though pastry shops also serve it at celebrations and with coffee.

The name and origin are not completely settled. Folk stories connect it with Ottoman-era Syria or with Tripoli, Lebanon, while the alternative name asabe Zainab may refer to a similar but distinct sweet. It is also easy to confuse with warbat, another syrupy pastry, but the rolled, cream-filled shape identifies znoud el-sit.