All Rights Reserved: an original recipe from Lavender and Lime
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Ingredients
for the pastry
15mlsorange flower water
3strandssaffron
500gflour, plus extra for dusting
1.25mlsfine salt
5mlsbaking powder
25gsesame seeds, finely ground
125gbutter, melted
1egg, lightly beaten
60mlscold water
for frying
500mlscanola oil
for soaking
280ghoney
5mlsorange flower water
Method
for the pastry
Place the orange flower water and saffron into a small container and set aside
Place the flour,salt, baking powder and ground sesame seeds into a food processor
Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
Add the egg, orange flower water and water
Mix until a dough forms
Turn out onto a lightly floured surface
Knead lightly into a ball and divide into 4
Roll out each portion until nice and thin
Cut out shapes - traditionally you cut a rectangle, and then 3 slits into the rectangle and shape them, but I used a cookie cutter
for frying
Place the oil into a heavy bottomed sauce pan
Heat to 150° Celsius on a medium to high temperature
Fry the pastry in batches for 2 minutes, turning them over half way through
Remove from the oil and dry on paper towel
for soaking
Place the honey and orange flower water into a small sauce pan
Heat over a low temperature
Soak the pastry in batches in the honey
Remove and allow to drip dry on a wire rack
Remove from the rack before cold
Notes
To grind your sesame seeds, place them into a clean spice grinder. If you don't have a thermometer to measure the temperature of the oil drop a small ball of the dough into the oil. If bubbles form around it, the oil is hot enough.