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Tel kadayıf

Tel kadayıf (Turkish: tel kadayıf) is a Turkish syrup-soaked pastry dessert made from fine strands of kadayıf dough. It is commonly served during Ramadan, though it is also eaten throughout the year.

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Tel kadayıf (Turkish: tel kadayıf) is a Turkish syrup-soaked pastry dessert made from fine strands of kadayıf dough. It is commonly served during Ramadan, though it is also eaten throughout the year. It is typically prepared by layering kadayıf strands with butter and a filling such as walnuts or pistachios, baking the pastry, and then pouring sugar syrup over it before serving. 1

Varieties in Ottoman cuisine

In the first Ottoman printed cookbook, Melceü't-Tabbâhîn, there is a recipe as Âdi Tel Kadayıf. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tel kadayıf”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Tel kadayıf is Turkish dessert, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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