Sweetheart’s Lips (Dilber Dudağı)

Ingredients One cup of yogurt; 1 cup of vegetable oil (or olive oil); 2 eggs; 1 tbsp of vinegar; 1tbsp of baking powder; 1 tsp of salt; 3 cups of flour; 1/4 cup of cornstarch (for rolling); 1 cup of crashed walnuts (for filling); 100g of butter (for brushing on top);...
Heavenly Mud (Cennet Çamuru)

Heavenly Mud (Cennet Çamuru)

Ingredients 300g kataifi; 125g of butter (or ghee); 1 cups of sugar; 1.2 cup of water; or 1.2 cup of milk (optional); 100g of kaymak (Turkish clotted cream); 3/4 cup of crashed wallnuts (or pistachios); 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Preparation and Cooking Unravel kataifi...
Rolled and Twisted Baklava (Burma Baklava)

Rolled and Twisted Baklava (Burma Baklava)

Ingredients A pack of the phyllo pastry (about 375g); 250g of ghee; 50g of sunflower oil (or 300 g of butter to make ghee); 300g of finely crashed walnuts (or 400g of finely crashed pistachios); 3/4 cup of sugar, 1.2 cup of water, 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Preparation...

Milky Nuriye (Sutlu Nuriye Baklava)

Ingredients   About 40 sheets of thin phyllo pastry (about 30cm x 30cm each), ¾ cup of sugar, 1 ¼ cup of water, 300gr of ghee (or clarrified unsalted butter), 300gr of thinly sliced (or coarsely ground) hazelnuts. Preparation and Cooking Preparation phase of...
Baklava

Baklava

Ingredients About 40 sheets of thin phyllo pastry (about 30cm x 30cm each), ¾ cup of sugar, 1 ¼ cup of water, 1 tbsp of lemon juice, 300gr of ghee (or clarrified unsalted butter), 300gr of crashed walnuts (or pistachios). Preparation and Cooking To prepare the syrup,...