Kattimeri..a delicious, traditional Cypriot dessert with countless fans! 

We would love to thank Maria Charalambous @mariachal for sharing her mother’s recipe with us! (Ακολουθεί συνταγή γραμμένη και στα ελληνικά)

Pastry

• 1kg of plain flour for baking

• 1 glass of sunflower oil

• 1 tsp of baking powder

Filling:

• 200g almonds

• 1 tsp cinnamon

• 1 tsp caster sugar

Using a rolling pin flatten your dough into three thin dough sheets. Sprinkle some almonds too with some cinnamon on every sheet. Roll the dough sheet tightly and place it in a baking tray creating a spiral. Repeat with the other pieces.

Syrup

• 2 cups of water

• 2 cups of caster sugar Squeeze of half a lemon

• 2 tsp of rose water 1 cinnamon stick and 2-3 gloves

Pre heat the oven at 180°C.

Bake the kattimeri for about one hour.

When it’s baked, remove from the oven and pour the syrup on top. Let it absorb all the cold syrup