Turkish cuisine · Desserts & Sweets

Sarı Burma (Gathered Walnut Pastry)

Yufka rolls gathered around a rolling pin with walnut filling, baked golden and soaked in cold syrup.

Ingredients · for 8 servings

• 8 yufka sheets
• 250 g walnuts
• 200 g butter
• 400 g sugar
• 300 ml water
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp semolina
• 50 g pistachios

Instructions

1. Bring the sugar, water and lemon juice to a boil in a pot and boil uncovered for 10 min. until the syrup is slightly tacky; let cool completely – it must be cold when the pastry comes hot out of the oven.
2. Chop the walnuts medium-fine and mix with the semolina so the filling later absorbs the escaping butter steam; melt the butter and keep warm.
3. Lay one yufka sheet on the work surface, brush thinly with butter and spread an eighth of the walnut mixture as a narrow strip along the lower edge.
4. Loosely roll the sheet around a floured rolling pin, then push the roll together from both ends toward the middle until it gathers like an accordion, and carefully slide it off the pin into a buttered dish.
5. Prepare all eight rolls this way, place them tightly next to each other in the dish, pour the remaining butter generously over them and bake at 170 °C for about 45 min. until deep golden and crisp.
6. Pour the cold syrup evenly over the hot pastry immediately – it should sizzle audibly –, let steep for at least 3 hrs. and sprinkle with finely chopped pistachios before serving.