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Right now the slogan on social media seems to be “Tischlein, deck dich”. Because as soon as the sun goes down, mouth-watering posts appear on Instagram and Co. Tables with salty, salty and sweet dishes can be seen. The reason: devout Muslims have been fasting since the end of March. During Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month, they abstain from all food and drink from sunrise to sunset. This is to remind fasting people that eating and drinking enough should not be taken lightly. The joy of the iftar, which is the iftar table, increases even more. And many Muslims allow others to participate in it virtually.

Modern baklava variety

Not only the photos of the finished flavors, but also the recipes are shared. “I’m not Muslim and I don’t fast, but I have many Muslim friends and I know Islamic culture very well,” says food blogger Tibella Kömürcü, 22. He shares his culinary knowledge with his approximately 385,000 subscribers on the Tiktok video platform. She especially likes to cook baklava marinated in sugar syrup with walnuts or pistachios. It adds a modern twist to the traditional baklava recipe with «Giotto» hazelnut balls. And this is how you do it yourself:

Giotto baklava recipe from Tibella Kömürcüs

Contents

preparation

1. Mix the ingredients for the syrup and boil for 15 minutes. Then let it cool
2. Mix melted butter and oil.
3. Grease the baking tray with a little butter and oil mixture.
4. Open half of the phyllo sheets one by one on the baking tray. Brush each layer with a mixture of butter and oil.
5. Spread the top layer with hazelnut cream and sprinkle with chopped walnuts, almonds and Giotto balls cut in half.
6. Place the remaining layers of phyllo on top, smear each layer again with the oil and oil mixture and cut into small squares.
8. Bake the Giotto baklava in the preheated oven at 180 °C upper/lower temperature for approximately 20 to 25 minutes.
9. Finally, pour the cold sugar syrup over the hot Giotto baklava.

If you prefer the salty stuff, you’ve come to the right place where Oerlikon and Schwamendingen meet. That’s where the Balkan office is. A pastry bakery that offers vegan alternatives as well as puff pastry with meat, chicken, spinach and cheese. The owner, the Mason family, does not fast because they are not Muslims. Sonja Mason (32) explains that they still have the feeling that it is the month of Ramadan: “We don’t have many Muslim customers during the day right now. Many of them come to buy our fresh pastries at iftar at around 7.30pm.»

Not only is the Balkan office busy during the month of fasting, the bakery is already expanding even though it only opened in the summer of 2020. The second branch is in Hirzenbach. And in December there will be another one at Zurich main station. If the Balkan office is still far away from you, here is the recipe for homemade cheese pie:

Balkan offices cheese pie recipe

Contents

preparation

1. Mix the ingredients with a mixer for 12 minutes to form a dough. Divide the dough into four parts. Knead well with your hands and let it rest for an hour.
2. For the filling: mix all the ingredients together.
3. Roll out the rested four pieces of dough into a thin rectangle on a kitchen cloth. At best the holes formed will eventually no longer appear.
4. Spread the filling evenly on each sheet of dough, leaving a border of about 4 cm on the left and right.
5. Carefully wrap each sheet of dough on the long side. You now have four full roles.
6. Arrange them as snails on a round baking tray.
7. Grease the cheese pastry with butter and bake in a preheated oven at 260 °C for 17 minutes.
8. Take it out briefly, cover the Käse-Börek with aluminum foil and put in the oven for another 5 minutes.

Source : Blick