Assabih bi Loz

Name: Assabih bi Loz (Almond Fingers)
Ingredients: 250 g (8 oz) fila pastry sheets; 90 g (3 oz) unsalted butter, melted; 250 g (8 oz) ground almonds; 3 tablespoons orange blossom water; 120 g (4 oz) granulated sugar, or to taste; Icing sugar, to decorate

Almond Fingers

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

These pastries are extremely easy to make and delightfully light. They feature in medieval manuscripts as lauzinaj which were fried and sprinkled with syrup, rose water and chopped pistachios.

Ingredients

250 g (8 oz) fila pastry sheets
90 g (

Pastry
Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Cut the sheets of fila into four rectangles and pile together so they do not dry out. Brush the centre of each rectangle with melted butter.

Prepare a filling of ground almonds mixed with sugar and orange blossom water.

Put 1 heaped teaspoon filling at one end of each rectangle. Roll up into a cigar shape an