Strudel with Cherry Filling Recipe
In this recipe, I just tried to connect East with West, and strudel with baklava. I really wanted to cook some oriental sweet based on bulgur (just when I was cooking it earlier - it seemed to me that this porridge has a very "confectionery" taste, and some sweet pastries are asking for it!).
Servings 8
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Instructions
- We will prepare the finished dough for our strudels. Mix flour, sugar, salt, water, add olive oil.
- The finished dough will be sticky and stringy, cover it with a film and let it stand for about an hour. This amount should be enough for two strudels.
- While the dough settles, we will prepare the fillings. Cherries for strudel, sprinkled with sugar and bulgur, fry in a small amount of olive oil.
- Fry the grits for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. When the cereal is browned, add caramel syrup made from Demerara sugar and water in proportions of 1:1. Pour the resulting syrup over the bulgur, boil for 10 minutes and add two tablespoons of honey and cinnamon.
- Grate the zest from one large orange.
- Mix bulgur with caramelized orange peel.
- While Bulgur is soaked in the aromas of orange and cinnamon, let's do the dough. Put half of the dough (it should stick to your hands) on a floured towel.
- And now gently knead the dough with your hands, make it as thin as possible, to a state of transparency. Grease the resulting leaf with olive oil, sprinkle with crumbs and half a cup of chopped nuts.
- Now smooth out the bulgur filling for the dough. And gently roll it into a roll with a towel.
- Similarly, prepare a strudel stuffed with cherries. Sprinkle with brown sugar.
- Carefully transfer the strudel to a baking tray. Garnish with halves of nuts and sesame seeds.
- Put the strudels in the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of about 200 degrees.
- Ten minutes before cooking, remove the strudel stuffed with bulgur from the oven and pour the syrup for baklava. To the syrup (sugar and water in a ratio of 1:1) I added rose water and honey. Now let's put it back in the oven..
- After forty minutes, remove both strudels from the oven, cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- The cherry strudel turned out crispy and sour. And with a filling of bulgur moist, caramel-nutty, similar to baklava with the aroma of oriental spices and orange. Enjoy your meal!