Homemade desserts: Oriental sweets from test

Oriental sweets, appearing in Europe in the middle Ages, made a lot of noise - they were seen as something exotic, delicious, exquisite, and very loved. This love of desserts, the recipes of which were invented in the East, alive still, and some of them can be found on sale in our shops - baklava, Turkish delight etc., Today we will talk about how to cook Oriental sweets from the test at home by yourself. It is not too difficult!

The concept of "Oriental sweets", of course, includes not one or two dessert - a lot of them and they are all different: it's made from sugar (sugar "noodles" niello, sugar with spices Mogul, crystal sugar), products like soft candy (sherbet, Turkish delight, nougat, kuchela and others), confectionery (roasting, kozinaki, caramel) and desserts based dough (flaky, biscuit, butter and other). Here's the latest today we'll talk - that cooking is the easiest way to master cooks at home.

Exotic sweets brought from the far East, have long been a delicacy, and ate them only in the richest houses of Europe. The most extensive is their choice has always been in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, but today they also make a considerable range in Bulgaria (there is a widespread belief that it was here doing the best Turkish delight), Bosnia, Macedonia, Greece, Romania. In Arab countries today, these sweets are distributed less (talking about Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt - there prefer dried fruit). The sweetness of the East is very popular today in the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Central Asian countries (especially in Tajikistan), in Moldova.

Recipes for Oriental sweets from test

One of the most common worldwide and the most beloved by many Oriental sweets baklava is (its preparation we have already told). For example, cooking can be sure: Eastern desserts - it's not too easy, but not fantastically difficult. Armed with the right ingredients (they're usually quite affordable and are sold in all stores), desire, time and good mood to cook almost any Oriental sweetness is not overwhelming.

To begin with - a few words about baklava.

A simple recipe of baklava

You will need: 1.2 kg fresh dough prepared from wheat flour, 350-400g of honey, 300-350g walnuts peeled, 300g butter melted, 250-300g of sugar, 1-2 egg yolk, salt.

How to make simple baklava. For the filling, grind nuts and dry on a dry pan, mix with sugar. The fresh dough to be divided into 10 equal parts and each roll into a ball. Then roll out each ball into a rectangular reservoir the size of the pan and turn to stack them on each other, prispa tenth part of the nut filling. Having laid out this way to each other all the sheets of dough and whole walnut stuffing, coat the top of the resulting layered product to be beaten with a little water egg yolk. Put the baklava in a preheated 180 degree oven for 10-15min, after which to get, cubes or diamonds cut, coat the edge of each melted butter unheated, again put in the oven and bake for 15-20min. On low heat melt the honey. For 3-5 minutes before end of cooking remove the baklava from the oven, pour an even layer of liquid honey, put it in the oven and cook for 35-40min. To separate the pieces of ready-made baklava from each other, lay on a dish.

This is a very simple recipe of baklava will be able to realize even an inexperienced cook - main desire, and the rest will follow, especially if you have a reliable recipe. On such simple and easily cooked Oriental sweets will be discussed further.

Recipe Oriental sweets "Watert"

'll need: 500 g flour, 150-180g of honey, 100g of butter, 3 eggs, ? Cup milk, 1 pinch of soda.

How to cook Oriental sweetness watert. In hot milk put the butter, then add a pinch of soda, when the butter has dissolved. Enter in a mixture of eggs, immediately pour the sifted flour, knead the dough. Roll out the dough with a thin layer of about 1.5-2mm thick, brush with melted butter, a touch of powder on top of flour, four times to roll again. The same still 6 times. Unrolling on the ground dough last in the formation of 3-4mm thick, lay it on a baking sheet greased with butter, put in the oven, heated to 160-180 degrees, bake for 10-15min, then cut the cake into squares and drizzle them with melted honey.

Recipe Oriental sweets "Baranek"

You will need: 1kg flour 600ml milk melted, 250g semolina and water, 30g sugar syrup and milk powder, 500g sesame seeds and sugar, chopped pistachios.

How to cook Oriental dessert baranek. Mix milk, flour, semolina, add the melted butter, stir all over again. In the resulting dough pour the water, add sugar and sugar syrup, stir and 30min to leave. Roll out the dough sausage 5cm in diameter, cut into pieces of 1.5 cm thick. With the power of one side to dip mugs in the chopped pistachios, then in sesame seeds. Put the product on with parchment baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes in a preheated abs the oven.

Recipe of the Eastern desert "Barmak"

You will need: 550-600g flour, 400g sour cream, 50g butter, sugar, salt, stuffing - 1,3-1,5 kg of sugar, 200g walnuts peeled, 80-100g of butter.

How to cook Oriental dessert "Barmak". Put the sour cream in a bowl, add the cooled melted butter, and salt until smooth and mix well. Add to the mix the sifted flour, knead the dough. For the filling, chop the nuts, dry them in the oven, mix them with sugar and butter until smooth. To shape the dough balls the size of a walnut, roll out each in turn in a circle, grease filling and collapse in rolls of a thickness not more fingers. Put the rolls on a greased butter a baking sheet, bake in a well-preheated oven for 45-50min. Before serving, sprinkle Barmak powdered sugar.

Well, the last Eastern dessert, which we will cover in this article, is very similar to our firewood.

Recipe of the Eastern desert of Orama"

You will need: 1 kg of flour, 600g butter melted, 100ml milk, 10 eggs, 1 Cup powdered sugar, and 1.5 tbsp of sugar ? tsp. soda, salt.

How to cook Oriental dessert of urama. Beat eggs with sugar, warm milk, salt and soda until sugar is dissolved, pour the sifted flour and knead dough. Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1.5-2mm, cut into strips 3-4cm in length. Boil ghee in a deep pan with a thick bottom and walls. One be screwed onto the rolling pin test strips, dipped in boiling oil with it while frying gently rotate the rolling pin to release it from the test. The product, removing the rolling pin, fry in oil until dark Golden. Dry the finished product, allow to cool and sprinkle liberally with powdered sugar.

Prepare your home unusual Eastern desserts and cheer them sweets for tea! Successful trial of the pen"!