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Ingredients
Dough
- 600 g butter, cut in pieces
- 20 g dried yeast
- 1000 g medium wheat semolina
- 500 g fine semolina
- 100 g sugar
- 6 mastic gum grains
- 14 mahleb seeds
- 150 g rose water
- 70 g blossom water
- 200 g water
Filling
-
550
g pistachio nuts, shelled, unsalted
or 550 g walnuts, shelled - 30 g sugar
- 25 g blossom water
- 50 g rose water
Assembly
- 100 g icing sugar
- Nutrition
- per 1 piece
- Calories
- 1502 kJ / 359 kcal
- Protein
- 6.9 g
- Carbohydrates
- 37 g
- Fat
- 20.4 g
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