Kadayif: Heavenly good dessert topping with angel hair
Time
Preparation time: 10 min.
Cooking or baking time: 50 min.
Total preparation time: 60 min.
Kadayif, or depending on the country also Kadaifi / Kataifi or Kadaif is a sweet with thin hair-thin dough threads. Walnuts, honey, sugar syrup and butter are usually processed for the very sweet food, but also sheep cheese and Kaymak, a firm jelly cream, are used to conjure up good-tasting dishes.
I also tried it once today and made a crunchy topping for a creamy pudding out of it.
Ingredients (4 people)
- 250 g of dough threads
- 200 g butter
- 100 g of walnuts
- 200 ml of water
- 200 g of sugar
- Lemon (optional)
preparation
- Heat water and sugar and simmer on a low flame for about 35 minutes. If a thick syrup has formed, refrigerate. If you like, give a splash of lemon to the crowd.
- Remove dough threads from the pack and remove the amount you need (the dough threads are firm and very long).
- After removing the required amount, be sure to immediately cover the remaining dough with a damp cloth, as it dries very quickly.
- Heat the butter in a pan and lightly brown the walnuts (this time with fat!)
- Remove the nuts and put the pasta threads in the pan.
- Now it is best to pull the dough threads apart with 2 wooden spoons, turn them and fry in the hot butter for about 15 minutes.
- If the angel hair is lightly browned and crispy, add walnuts, swing through briefly and arrange on your favorite dessert (here: cream chocolate cream).
- Drizzle with the sugar syrup (if you want to save work, use honey or agave syrup).
- Sit back, enjoy and float on cloud 7 with a topping with angel hair!
Tip: The raw dough can be frozen in portions (see Figure 9). Finished dough threads should be processed immediately and tolerate no frost.
