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A Sudanese dessert of peanuts, phyllo pastry and squeeze lemon juice, baked in the oven.

1 hr 15 min · Serves 20 · Medium

Serves
20

Ingredients

Time
Prep 35 min · Cook 40 min · 75 min total
Difficulty
medium
  1. 1

    Mill the peanuts. Melt butter and sugar, and mix in peanuts. Brush 1 sheet phyllo with a little melted butter.

  2. 2

    Add small blobs of peanut mix over the top half of the phyllo pastry. Roll up the pastry into a sausage, starting from the nut covered end.

  3. 3

    Repeat with all sheets of phyllo. Bake for 40 minitess in oven at 220°C on baking sheet. Put sugar, water and lemon in pan and boil until becomes syrupy.

  4. 4

    Cut pastries into 2cm pieces, but leave them lying in their strips. Cover in the sugar syrup.

  5. 5

    When cool transfer onto some newspaper to absorb excess liquid.

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