Saragli

"Saragli" is a vegetarian Greek dessert. It belongs to the wider family of desserts called "baking tray desserts". This category covers all desserts which contain fillo pastry, nuts and syrup and which are baked in the oven.

Here is the recipe (found in www.sintagespareas.gr, adjusted and translated by me).

Saragli (Rolled baklava)
(Filling ingredients: 1/2 kg fillo pastry, 1/2 cup unsalted butter, 1/2 cup margarine, 600 gr. coarsely ground walnuts, 2 tsp. cinammon powder, 1/2 tsp. clove powder.
Syrup ingredients: 3 cups of sugar, 1 1/2 cup of water, 2 tbsp. lemon juice.

1. Mix in a bowl the walnuts, the cinammon powder and clove powder.
2. Melt butter and margarine together.
3. Lay 3 sheets of fillo pastry on a worktop, each well rushed with the butter-margarine mixture, and sprinkle the sheet on top with enough nut mixture to cover it.
4. Roll it on its short side (the one that will make more turns).
5. Cut the roll in pieces of 3 cm.
6. Grease a baking tin and place the pieces close together, their cut surface facing down.
7. Repeat from step 3 untill nut mixture and pastry are over.
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 C for 30 min. approximately (untill they are light brown in colour).
9. Boil the syrup ingredients for 5-8 min. Poor the hot syrup on the baking tin as soon as you take it out of the oven.
10. Let the dessert absorb all the syrup and cool completely before serving (vanilla ice-cream is a good accompaniment to it).

Tip: while preparing one roll keep the rest of the fillo pastry covered with a damp cloth in order to prevent it from drying up. Each time take from under the cloth only the sheets you will use.