- Patouda traditional cretan recipe

Category: Mediterranean Diet, Cretan Recipe. 

Serves: 40 -45 pieces   
Preparation time: 2hr
Level: Easy - Medium

Ingredients:

For the dough

• 3 glasses of  ^eleon^ extra virgin olive oil  $
• 1 glass of sugar
• 1 glass of milk
• 1/2 glass of tsikoudia, 
• 2 tsp. of ammonia
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 glass of “alousia” (we boil water with a spoon of ash and then we filter it)
• flour (for all uses) as much as it takes

 

For the filling

• ½ glass of water
• 1 tsp. of nutmeg
• 1 kg of walnut and almond chest
• 1 glass of sugar
• 1 glass of honey
• 2 glasses of ground sesame

 

Preparation:

1. Knead a dough with the aforementioned ingredients. 
2. For the filling, first make a syrup with the water, sugar and honey and when it is ready stir in the remaining ingredients. 
3. Take a small piece of dough (the size of an apricot), make it round, open it slightly in the middle, fill it with a tsp. of the filling and close it again. 
4. Bake them until they brown and when they have cooled sprinkle with finely ground sugar. 

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