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Turkish Tastes in Las Vegas | Episode 30 | Stuffed Kadaifi (Kadayıf Dolması)

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    [Instrumental Music introduction]
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    This next recipe,
    this is a kadayif dolmasi,
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    and this is a fantastically
    light dessert.
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    And the way that we're going
    to prepare this today is,
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    I've made a little filling.
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    And the filling is a combination of
    chopped walnuts
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    and dried Turkish apricots.
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    With this filling, you could incorporate
    whatever your favorite nuts should be.
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    Maybe pistachios or pine nuts
    or any kind of nut, really,
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    and any kind of dried fruit,
    for that matter.
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    So, for today,
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    I've selected walnuts and apricots.
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    This is also the kadayif,
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    and it's this very stringy,
    strand-like, almost like a pasta.
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    And then what we're going to do is,
    we're going to roll them.
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    I've pre-rolled a few here,
    and so we're going to roll this.
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    And what we're going to do is take
    a little bit of this filling
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    and put it right here at the top.
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    And then as we tuck this up and roll it,
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    we're going to fold the sides in
    and just continue moving down.
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    Just like that,
    OK?
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    And then we're going to place that
    here.
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    OK, so these are ready to go.
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    I've preheated my oven to 350 degrees.
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    What I'm going to do now:
    melt a little bit of butter.
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    And what's going to happen here is,
    the melted butter,
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    we're going to put on top
    of our kadayif dolmasi.
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    And it's really going to help those
    get nice and golden brown in the oven.
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    So we're going to melt
    our butter quickly.
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    All right,
    our butter is just about melted.
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    So many people probably
    have the question,
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    where could you find the kadayif?
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    I would say at a specialty store,
    an ethnic market,
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    something like that, international
    food, something of that nature,
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    typically carry this kind of an item.
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    So if you're looking to make these,
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    they're very simple, very
    fast, and they're delicious.
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    so our butter is melted.
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    So now what we're going to do is
    we're going to spoon the butter.
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    right over the tops,
    just like that.
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    and now these are going to go
    in the oven
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    and those are going to go in
    there until they're golden brown.
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    I'd say about 15 minutes.
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    In the meantime, we're going
    to make a little simple syrup.
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    And simple syrup is any time...
    one part sugar, one part water.
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    And you can flavor your simple
    syrup with anything you might like,
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    maybe a little bit of rose essence.
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    Today I've chosen lemon because
    I think it goes really well
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    with this,
    with this dessert.
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    And what I'm going to do is
    put the sugar in the water,
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    I want to bring this up to a boil
    so that it dissolves.
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    I'm also going to add that lemon juice,
    just a splash.
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    There we are.
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    And we're going to bring this up
    to a boil to dissolve the sugar.
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    And essentially,
    when our kadayif are finished,
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    we'll take this simple syrup and we'll
    drizzle it all the way over the top,
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    which will add a lot of sweetness to it,
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    but it'll also give it a
    little bit of moisture.
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    And again, we just want to bring
    this up to a boil so that sugar dissolves.
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    OK, so our sugar is dissolved now
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    and now we just want to wait for just
    a minute till this comes up to a boil.
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    And then we're going to come back in
    about 15 minutes
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    when our kadayif are
    golden brown and we'll plate this up.
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    Our kadayif dolmasi have been in
    the oven for about 15 minutes
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    and they're just about perfect.
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    They're golden brown and that's
    exactly what we are looking for.
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    And there we are.
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    Now, what we're going to do
    is we're going to, excuse me,
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    drizzle that simple syrup right
    over the top of all of our kadayif.
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    [Soft music]
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    And now we're ready to plate.
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    So I have a little spatula here
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    and we're going to very carefully
    put these,
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    and I'm going to do three.
    Right there in the center,
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    but there we have kadayif dolmas.
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    What a beautiful dessert.
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    [Music]
Title:
Turkish Tastes in Las Vegas | Episode 30 | Stuffed Kadaifi (Kadayıf Dolması)
Video Language:
English
Duration:
05:35

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