Sare Bourma

Dessert
  • Serves
  • Cooks in
    80 minutes
  • Difficulty
    Average

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

  • 2
    eggs, room temperature
  • 2 cups
    flour
  • 1/4 cup
    sugar, for stuffing
  • 1 pinch
    salt
  • 500 grams
    walnuts, ground
  • 1 tbsp
    ground cinnamon
  • 2/3 cup
    sugar, for syrup
  • 1 cup
    water
  • 1 tsp
    orange 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:

  1. Mix the flour with the sunflower oil.
  2. Add the eggs one by one and gradually add the water while kneading.
  3. Cover and leave to rest for 30 minutes at room temperature.

For the stuffing:

  1. Mix nuts, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl until smooth.

For the syrup:

  1. Melt the sugar in the water over low heat.
  2. Boil for a few seconds then remove from heat and let cool.
  3. Add rose water and orange blossom water.

Mounting:

  1. Spread the dough over the counter.
  2. Brush melted butter over the dough then put one tablespoon of the filling on one end.
  3. Close and roll the dough over a thin wooden stick.
  4. Compress the dough from both sides and remove the stick.
  5. Add the rolled stuffed dough to the tray.
  6. Repeat the steps until you fill the tray.
  7. Preheat the oven to 170°C (~340° F) and bake the pastry for 10 minutes.
  8. 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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