Jumat, 11 Februari 2011

Sweet Filo Cigars

March 23-24, 2018


I've tentatively joined a novel cooking club! This i aims to pick out a unlike cookbook for each potluck gathering. Yet the start characteristic was Ottolenghi & Tamimi's Jerusalem. It's non a stretch from my other club's driving theme, in addition to I borrowed the volume from a generous Ottolenghi clubmate.

I also stuck to my well-worn dessert-making groove. Jerusalem has a distich of fabulous-looking orangish cakes that would probable move well, but I ultimately preferred to endeavor my manus at the sweetness filo cigars. They're stuffed amongst sweetened reason pistachios in addition to almonds, fried, in addition to and thus dipped inwards honey.

I got an first-class caput start the nighttime before, preparing the nut filling every bit my dinner baked in addition to wrapping it inwards filo inwards front end of Netflix. Things went awry in addition to I actually started swearing at fry-time afterward that evening: the cigars' stubborn, asymmetric centre of majority meant that they wouldn't plow over inwards the oil; i or 2 fifty-fifty outburst their filling. The adjacent morning, I felt a fleck calmer in addition to the chore at manus felt to a greater extent than feasible. All except the start 3 cigars were nicely browned, non likewise greasy, in addition to their weirder edges softened inwards their love dunking.

With an egg in addition to lots of love involved, this recipe is far from vegan. I regard conversion wouldn't live on likewise difficult, though - I'd endeavor skipping the egg entirely, maybe adding a point of margarine or olive crude to the filling in addition to sealing the cigars amongst water. Honey could live on replaced amongst diluted agave nectar, or a heavy carbohydrate syrup amongst a drib of orangish bloom water.

These cigars were the short, sweetness terminate that our sprawling tiffin needed. They're to a greater extent than filo than filling soundless the reason nuts, brightened amongst lemon zest, smoothen through. I used orangish bloom honey, in addition to nosotros could also discern its floral scent. The overall upshot is soft, layered in addition to very, rattling sugary.

Delightful every bit they were, this is in all probability only a one-off recipe for me. I alive thus only about Sydney Rd, where similar Lebanese pastries are cheap, abundant, in addition to fried past times mortal else. Instead I'll salve my filo folding for bougatsa me krema.



Sweet filo cigars
(very slightly adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi's Jerusalem,
where it's credited to Rafram Hadad)

80g flaked almonds
80g pistachios
80g caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 tablespoon lemon zest
180g filo pastry
peanut oil, for frying
180g honey


Blend together the flaked almonds in addition to 60g of the pistachios inwards a nutrient processor, to shape a coarse powder. Tip the reason nuts into a small-medium saucepan, add together the carbohydrate in addition to iv tablespoons of water. Set them over depression estrus in addition to produce for most iv minutes, until the carbohydrate is dissolved. Turn off the estrus in addition to allow the mixture to cool a little. Separate the egg. When the nut mixture is only lukewarm, whisk inwards the vanilla, egg yolk, in addition to lemon zest.

Unravel the filo pastry in addition to role only i sail at a time. Drop a generous tablespoon most 2 cm away from a curt side. Fold i long side upwardly to encompass it, in addition to thus the closest curt side, in addition to thus the other long side; ringlet upwardly the filling to shape a cigar shape, sealing the egg amongst a fiddling brush of egg white. Repeat amongst the residuum of the filling, making a dozen or thus cigars inwards total.

Pour the peanut crude inwards a medium saucepan to most 2cm depth.  Bring it to medium heat. Fry the cigars on 2 sides, inwards batches, until they're golden on both sides. (The master copy recipe thinks this volition get got 10 seconds per side, but it was double that for me.) Cool the cigars on absorbent paper.

Place the love inwards a minor saucepan amongst 1 tablespoon of water. Set it over medium heat, stirring together the love in addition to H2O until they're good mixed. Turn off the estrus in addition to drib 2-3 of the cigars into the saucepan, turning them to coat them inwards the love in addition to letting them sit down for only a infinitesimal each. Pull them out in addition to house them on a serving dish or inwards an airtight container. 

To serve, roughly chop the remaining pistachios in addition to sprinkle them over the cigars.

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