Kalburabastı (Walnut Semolina Pastries)

Ingredients

• 1 cup semolina
• 3.5 cups plain flour
• 125 g butter
• half a cup of yoghurt
• 1 egg
• 1 sachet baking powder
• Filling: 1.5 cups crushed walnuts
• For the syrup: 3 cups sugar and 3 cups water

Method

1. Boil the sugar and water into a syrup and leave it to cool.
2. Knead the melted butter, yoghurt, egg, semolina, baking powder and flour into a soft dough.
3. Rest the dough for half an hour.
4. Take walnut-sized pieces, flatten them in your palm, add the walnut filling and close them up.
5. Press each piece lightly on a sieve or grater to mark the pattern, then arrange on a tray.
6. Bake at 180 °C for about thirty minutes, until golden.
7. Pour the cold syrup over them as they come out of the oven and leave them to take it up.