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Tante Fanny Fresh Filo & Yufka Dough

Aunt Fanny Fresh Filo & Yufka Dough 250g

Aunt Fanny filo and yufka dough brings holidays straight to your home: as a delicious casing for international nibbles, savoury and sweet pockets, dough sweets, baskets or rolls, such as "Sigara Börek". If you fancy an oriental dessert, why not try homemade baklava? The Aunt Fanny Filo and Yufka Dough will make you feel like you're on holiday at home. Aunt Fanny - Fannytastically simple!

Recipe idea - Baklava. Turkish layered swirl
Baklava is a traditional recipe eaten mainly in the Middle East and the Balkans. There are many different recipes and ways of preparing them - but one thing almost always remains the same:  Filo dough filled with nuts and doused with sweet syrup, honey or sugar water. Simply wonderful!

Ingredients for 1 baking tray:

• 1 Pkg. Aunt Fanny Filo- & Yufka Dough 250 g
• 200 g almonds finely ground
• 100 g walnuts finely ground
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon ground
• 1 lemon freshly squeezed
• melt 200 g butter
.
• Some pistachios for sprinkling chopped
.

For the syrup:

• 1/4 l water
• 350 g honey
• 350g sugar

Preparation
Step 1: Preheat oven to 190° C top/bottom heat and prepare dough according to package instructions.
Step 2: Bring the water to the boil with the sugar, honey in the water and lemon juice and boil down to a thick, light syrup.
Step 3: Place 5 sheets of pastry loosely in a square well-greased mould, drizzle melted butter between each.
Step 4: Spread the almonds, walnuts and cinnamon evenly over the dough.
Step 5: Drizzle the remaining 5 pastry sheets with butter, place over the filling and cut into approx. 5 x 5 cm pieces with a sharp knife. Brush the surface with melted butter.
Step 6: Bake in the preheated oven on the middle shelf for about 10 minutes, pour over the syrup and finish baking for a further 20 - 25 minutes.
Step 7: Serve with chopped pistachio nuts!

About the manufacturer:

Aunt Fanny is a fresh dough specialist. Our story began in 1999 with a roll of fresh puff pastry, rolled out ready to bake on baking paper and lots of ideas. Because cooking and baking has always been our great passion. Since then, the ideas have grown into an extensive fresh dough range: Pizza doughs, shortcrust and quiche doughs, puff pastry, strudel doughs, tarte flambée doughs and more! Aunt Fanny - Fannytastically simple!