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.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon ouzo
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Warm water
- Honey for drizzling
- Chopped walnuts
- Cinnamon
Instructions
- 1
In a medium bowl mix the flour and baking powder.
- 2
In larger bowl mix all the wet ingredients (egg, ouzo, vanilla, lemon juice)
- 3
Add the flour slowly to the egg mixture and mix until all the flour has been absorbed.
- 4
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.
- 5
Roll the dough in 2 balls and let it rest for 30 minutes.
- 6
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).
- 7
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
- 8
Pinch each rectangle in the middle to form a bow.
- 9
Pour some olive oil in a pan, enough so that it barely covers a bow once it is in the pan.
- 10
Heat the olive oil, it should be hot enough when tiny bubbles start forming on the surface, but it should not be smoking.
- 11
Drop 4-5 bows (depending on the size of your pan) and fry them until slightly golden, this will take about 30-50 seconds.
- 12
Remove with slotted spoon and place on a plate lined with paper towels.
- 13
Once they are cool place on a large platter.
- 14
Heat some honey and pour on the diples and sprinkle with walnuts and cinnamon