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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.
Daktyla - Ladies' fingers is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Daktyla - Ladies' fingers is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook daktyla - ladies' fingers using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Daktyla - Ladies' fingers:
- Take For the filling
- Prepare 1 cup ground almonds (not passed through a food processor)
- Take 1/4 cup sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Make ready For the filo
- Take 1/2 kg wheat flour
- Make ready 1 little tepid water (as much as it takes)
- Get 1 little olive oil
- Prepare Syrup
- Get 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Get 1 little lemon
- Take 2-3 cloves []
- Prepare 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.
Steps 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. Add in the shortening, rubbing it between your fingers with the flour to combine it together.
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