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Greek Pastries with Honey and Walnuts – Diples

These Greek traditional crispy and light pastries called Diples are fried in healthy olive oil, drizzled with honey and sprinkled with chopped walnuts.
Course Dessert, holiday
Cuisine Greek, Mediterranean
Keyword Diples, honey, Pastry
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Resting Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Author Elena Paravantes

Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a medium bowl mix the flour and baking powder.
  • In larger bowl mix all the wet ingredients (egg, ouzo, vanilla, lemon juice)
  • Add the flour slowly to the egg mixture and mix until all the flour has been absorbed.
  • If the dough is too dry, add about 1 -2 tablespoons of warm water and knead with your hands. The dough should not be sticky, but should be soft.
  • Roll the dough in 2 balls and let it rest for 30 minutes.
  • On a well floured surface, roll out the dough with a well floured rolling pin until it is ¼ of an inch or less, (roll it around the pin and turn it over so it does not stick on the surface).
  • Using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter cut the sheet that you have rolled out in 8 rectangles about 2 inches by 5 inches each. You will have about 16 rectangles, 8 each sheet, depending on how thin you roll out the dough
  • Pinch each rectangle in the middle to form a bow.
  • Pour some olive oil in a pan, enough so that it barely covers a bow once it is in the pan.
  • Heat the olive oil, it should be hot enough when tiny bubbles start forming on the surface, but it should not be smoking.
  • Drop 4-5 bows (depending on the size of your pan) and fry them until slightly golden, this will take about 30-50 seconds.
  • Remove with slotted spoon and place on a plate lined with paper towels.
  • Once they are cool place on a large platter.
  • Heat some honey and pour on the diples and sprinkle with walnuts and cinnamon

Notes

You can save some diples without adding honey in an airtight container and drizzle with honey when ready to serve.