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Turkey: Pastries

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Tatlı from Turkey: recognise baklava, simit, künefe, lokum, şekerpare, revani, kadayıf, tulumba, helva and poğaça. Good to know: A sweet filo pastry with nuts and syrup. The city of Gaziantep is famous for its baklava. A sesame-covered bread ring, a street snack. It is sold on every corner in Istanbul. A warm pastry of shredded dough with cheese and syrup. It is served hot and stringy. Soft, jelly-like sugar cubes dusted with icing sugar. They often contain rose water or nuts. Soft semolina cookies soaked in sugar syrup. The name means roughly ‘piece of sweetness’. A moist semolina cake soaked in syrup. In Greece it is called ravani. A pastry of fine dough threads with nuts and syrup. The dough threads resemble angel hair. Fried piped dough soaked in sugar syrup. It resembles small, fluted churros. A dense sweet, often made from sesame paste or semolina. It is common across the Middle East. A soft pastry filled with cheese, olives or potato. It is part of a Turkish breakfast. And it is exactly such details that truly bring a subject to life.

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Baklava

A sweet filo pastry with nuts and syrup.

💡 Did you know? The city of Gaziantep is famous for its baklava.

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Simit

A sesame-covered bread ring, a street snack.

💡 Did you know? It is sold on every corner in Istanbul.

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Künefe

A warm pastry of shredded dough with cheese and syrup.

💡 Did you know? It is served hot and stringy.

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Turkish delight

Soft, jelly-like sugar cubes dusted with icing sugar.

💡 Did you know? They often contain rose water or nuts.

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Şekerpare

Soft semolina cookies soaked in sugar syrup.

💡 Did you know? The name means roughly ‘piece of sweetness’.

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