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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. Taste of Cyprus Sweets Daktyla (Ladies Fingers). Greek ladies' fingers (daktyla). (Sean Fennessey).
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook daktyla - ladies' fingers using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Daktyla - Ladies' fingers:
- Prepare For the filling
- Prepare 1 cup ground almonds (not passed through a food processor)
- Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
- Get 2 tbsp cinnamon
- Get For the filo
- Take 1/2 kg wheat flour
- Take 1 little tepid water (as much as it takes)
- Prepare 1 little olive oil
- Make ready Syrup
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 little lemon
- Get 2-3 cloves []
- Make ready oil for frying
Continue filling the pastries and forming them into the shape of a finger. 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. If you are looking for a divine lady finger that is both Gluten and Dairy Free, look no further! Daktyla are delicious Cyprus sweets in the shape of fingers, dipped in syrup and filled with almonds and cinnamon.
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.
Cypriot Recipes 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. Daktyla is a leavened 'country' or 'village' bread from Greece, but also popular in Cyprus and Turkey. It has a segmented shape resembling fingers of bread, which give it its name of 'finger bread' (Δάχτυλα, Daktyla in Greek means "fingers"), which is made by making deep slashes in a loaf before baking. Easy to pull apart "fingers" of dough, making this a great "pass-around" loaf.
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