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Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. Daktyla, also called daktyla kyrion (meaning ladies fingers) is the most popular Cypriot dessert made with phyllo which is very crisp and very juicy, filled with almonds, cinnamon and sugar. They are fried and then drenched in syrup, scented with anthonero (orange blossom water), which make them irresistible.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook daktyla - ladies' fingers using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Daktyla - Ladies' fingers:
- Get For the filling
- Prepare 1 cup ground almonds (not passed through a food processor)
- Take 1/4 cup sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Take For the filo
- Make ready 1/2 kg wheat flour
- Take 1 little tepid water (as much as it takes)
- Make ready 1 little olive oil
- Make ready Syrup
- Get 2 cups sugar
- Get 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 little lemon
- Take 2-3 cloves []
- Take oil for frying
Mix the oil and the flour in a bowl (using your hands). Add the water little by little and mix until you have a homogenous dough. Daktyla - ladies fingers, a delicious sweet pastry filled with a mixture of almonds, cinnamon and sugar and whilst still hot, immersed in cold syrup. Daktyla, also called daktyla kyrion (meaning ladies fingers) is the most popular Cypriot dessert made with phyllo which is very crisp and very juicy, filled with almonds, cinnamon and sugar.
Instructions to make Daktyla - Ladies' fingers:
- Grind the almonds (using a pestle and mortar).
- Add the sugar and the cinnamon.
- Mix the oil and the flour in a bowl (using your hands). Add the water little by little and mix until you have a homogenous dough.
- If you have a pasta machine, then roll out long and narrow strips, of about 5-7 cm width. If you don't, roll them out using a rolling pin.
- Using a large spoon place a little of the filling at one end of the strip of filo (the narrow end). Τhen repeat for the length of the filo sheet leaving a 3 cm space between spoonfuls.
- Roll the whole filo at its length into a cylinder.
- Cut in the spaces that you have left without any filling and press the ends with a fork to seal.
- Fry in piping hot oil until golden brown (about 5-6 minutes).
- When you are through frying, let them all cool.
- Place all the ingredients for the syrup in a pot and boil for about 5 minutes.
- Dip the fingers, a few at a time, in the syrup and let them soak for 1-2 minutes.
- Sprinkle with almonds and serve in a platter.
They are fried and then drenched in syrup, scented with anthonero (orange blossom water), which make them irresistible. Daktyla meaning ladies' fingers, is a very old recipe with a few ingredients but so. Ladies' Fingers (daktyla) Sweets and desserts have always been an important and distinctive part of the Cypriots' menu. A favorite and a traditional sweet in Cyprus is Daktyla, Ladies´Fingers filled with ground almonds and cinnamon sugar. Once hot, add the ladies fingers a few at a time.
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