Greek Pastries with Honey and Walnuts – Diples
User Reviews
5.0
6 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
20 mins
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Cook Time
20 mins
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Additional Time
30 mins
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Total Time
1 hr
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Course
Dessert
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Cuisine
Mediterranean, Greek
Greek Pastries with Honey and Walnuts – Diples
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These Greek traditional crispy and light pastries called Diples are fried in healthy olive oil, drizzled with honey and sprinkled with chopped walnuts.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon ouzo
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- warm water
- honey for drizzling
- chopped walnuts
- cinnamon
Instructions
- In a medium bowl mix the flour and baking powder.
- In larger bowl mix all the wet ingredients (egg, ouzo, vanilla, lemon juice)
- Add the flour slowly to the egg mixture and mix until all the flour has been absorbed.
- If the dough is too dry, add about 1 -2 tablespoons of warm water and knead with your hands. The dough should not be sticky, but should be soft.
- Roll the dough in 2 balls and let it rest for 30 minutes.
- On a well floured surface, roll out the dough with a well floured rolling pin until it is ¼ of an inch or less, (roll it around the pin and turn it over so it does not stick on the surface).
- Using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter cut the sheet that you have rolled out in 8 rectangles about 2 inches by 5 inches each. You will have about 16 rectangles, 8 each sheet, depending on how thin you roll out the dough
- Pinch each rectangle in the middle to form a bow.
- Pour some olive oil in a pan, enough so that it barely covers a bow once it is in the pan.
- Heat the olive oil, it should be hot enough when tiny bubbles start forming on the surface, but it should not be smoking.
- Drop 4-5 bows (depending on the size of your pan) and fry them until slightly golden, this will take about 30-50 seconds.
- Remove with slotted spoon and place on a plate lined with paper towels.
- Once they are cool place on a large platter.
- Heat some honey and pour on the diples and sprinkle with walnuts and cinnamon
Notes
- You can save some diples without adding honey in an airtight container and drizzle with honey when ready to serve.
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