Daktila

Name: Daktila
Yield: Makes: 25–30
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 1 tsp. salt; 200 g caster sugar; 1 tsp. lemon juice; 4 sticks of cinnamon bark; 750 g plain flour; 100 ml sunflower oil or light olive oil; 100 ml sunflower oil or light olive oil; 700 g whole blanched almonds, finely chopped in a food processor; Groundnut oil, for deep frying; 100 ml rosewater; 4 tsp. ground cinnamon

Preparation info

Makes:
25–30

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Real Greek

By Tonia Buxton

Published 2016

About

The Greeks use a lot of home-produced nuts in their desserts, like daktila, or as I call them Almond Lady Fingers. Like many other Greek sweet pastries, daktila are deliciously fragrant with rose water and cinnamon, and of course, they are very sweet!

Ingredients

750 g plain flour
100 ml sunflower oil or light olive oil
1

Europe
Greece
Dessert
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Make the syrup: Place the ingredients in a small saucepan with 200 ml cold water. Bring to a steady boil for 5 minutes. Take off the heat to cool.
Meanwhile make the dough by mixing the flour, oil and salt together, crumbling with your fingers to form breadcrumbs. Gr