Sare Bourma
Dessert
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Serves
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Cooks in80 minutes
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DifficultyAverage
This dessert is typically given from mother to daughter from an old Armenian recipe made from a base of baklava dough, but thicker. It is called “bourma,” which means small bracelet in Turkish. As it was forbidden to speak Armenian at a point in time, a lot of Western Armenian dishes and recipes were named in Turkish but its heritage remains the same. The Sare Bourma can be stuffed with any nut or jam a person desires.
Ingredients
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2eggs, room temperature
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2 cupsflour
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1/4 cupsugar, for stuffing
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1 pinchsalt
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500 gramswalnuts, ground
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1 tbspground cinnamon
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2/3 cupsugar, for syrup
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1 cupwater
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1 tsporange blossom water
Reprinted with permission from Armenian Cuisine, by Aline Kamakian and Barbara Drieskens, copyright © 2001. Published by Aline Kamakian. Photographs copyright © 2001 by Jeroen Kramer.
Instructions
For the dough:
- Mix the flour with the sunflower oil.
- Add the eggs one by one and gradually add the water while kneading.
- Cover and leave to rest for 30 minutes at room temperature.
For the stuffing:
- Mix nuts, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl until smooth.
For the syrup:
- Melt the sugar in the water over low heat.
- Boil for a few seconds then remove from heat and let cool.
- Add rose water and orange blossom water.
Mounting:
- Spread the dough over the counter.
- Brush melted butter over the dough then put one tablespoon of the filling on one end.
- Close and roll the dough over a thin wooden stick.
- Compress the dough from both sides and remove the stick.
- Add the rolled stuffed dough to the tray.
- Repeat the steps until you fill the tray.
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (~340° F) and bake the pastry for 10 minutes.
- Turn the tray if needed. Remove from the oven and pour the cold sugar syrup over the top.
Note: You can replace the dough with ready-made Philo pastry.
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