Filo triangles with cream cheese, pistachio and rose

Warbat is a popular snack during the month of Ramadan. Sami’s childhood was spent crowding around the street vendor selling these at the corner of their street. He’d barely make it home before the flaky pastry – dripping with thick and sticky syrup and always sprinkled with vivid green crushed pistachios – was finished. The filling is traditionally made with ishta – a kind of thick, milky, silky cream – which is then drizzled with rose water or rose water syrup. Ishta is not always easy to