🇬🇷 How to Make Kataifi

Craving Kataifi? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Kataifi at home, in about 1 hr 15 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 400g kataifi (shredded filo), teased apart
• 200g butter, melted
• 250g walnuts, chopped
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• Syrup: 350g sugar, 250ml water, 1 tbsp honey, 1 strip lemon peel

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Make the syrup, simmer 10 min, then cool it completely. The hot-pastry-cold-syrup rule applies here too.
2. Pull the kataifi apart with your fingers until it is fluffy, not matted. This takes longer than you expect.
3. Toss it thoroughly with the melted butter so every strand is coated.
4. Take a small handful, flatten it, put a spoon of walnuts and cinnamon at one end and roll into a fat cigar.
5. Pack the rolls tightly in a buttered tin and bake at 170°C for 45 min until crisp and golden.
6. Cold syrup over hot pastry, then leave it several hours to drink it all up.