Armenian Gata cookies made of homemade puff pastry with nuts

National pastries for tea or coffee in Armenian! A wonderful recipe for making traditional Armenian cookies from puff pastry mixed with kefir with fragrant nuts, which will pleasantly surprise with its great taste and will definitely appeal to many!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 10 % 7 g
Fats 32 % 22 g
Carbohydrates 58 % 40 g
377 kcal
GI: 5 / 0 / 95

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h 5 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the necessary products for making delicious sweet cookies with filling.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    To prepare the dough, sift five hundred grams of wheat flour into a volumetric bowl, then pour into it half a teaspoon of soda, one quarter teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of vanilla sugar and mix all the ingredients.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut two hundred and fifty grams of softened margarine into a small cube and put it in a bowl with dry ingredients.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl and rub with your hands until crumbs.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    We break one chicken egg into a deep bowl and beat it, then pour two hundred and fifty milliliters of kefir at room temperature into it.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Mix kefir with egg until smooth.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour the liquid base into a large bowl with lazy puff pastry.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl clockwise.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Collect the dough in a bowl and knead it well with your hands.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    We collect the dough into a lump and put it in a cellophane bag, which we put in the refrigerator for forty minutes.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Grind one hundred and fifty grams of walnut mixture with peeled seeds with a blender and pour it into a deep bowl.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Pour eighty grams of wheat flour and two hundred and fifty grams of sugar into a bowl with chopped nuts and seeds in the assortment.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl together.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Pour seventy grams of melted butter or melted butter into a bowl with dry ingredients.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl with each other and the cookie filling is ready.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    After a while, we spread the dough on a table sprinkled with a small amount of flour and divide it into three identical parts.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    Alternately knead each piece of dough on a floured table.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18.

    Roll out each piece of dough to thin cakes, preferably rectangular in shape about two to three millimeters thick.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19.

    We spread the necessary amount of cooked filling on each tortilla, which we then distribute in a uniform thin layer without reaching the edges of the tortilla about four centimeters.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20.

    Roll the tortillas with stuffing into tight rolls.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21.

    We fill and grip the edges of the rolls well, after which we pass over the top of each roll with a rolling pin without pressing very hard.

  22. Step 22:

    Step 22.

    Cut the rolls with a curly knife into approximately equal triangular pieces, which we then spread on a baking sheet covered with parchment.

  23. Step 23:

    Step 23.

    Very well lubricate the cookies on top and sides with egg yolk whipped with milk.

  24. Step 24:

    Step 24.

    Put the baking tray in a preheated oven to two hundred degrees and bake the cookies for ten minutes, after which we reduce the oven temperature to one hundred and eighty degrees and bake the cookies, depending on its size, for another fifteen to twenty minutes.

  25. Step 25:

    Step 25.

    After a while, we take out the baking tray with cookies from the oven.

  26. Step 26:

    Step 26.

    We put the cooked cookies on a plate and serve them to the table.

  27. Step 27:

    Step 27.

    Cooking together, cooking simply, cooking at home the most delicious dishes from available products according to our recipes! Bon appetit and a hearty tea party for everyone!

The most delicious recipe for cookies with nuts is Armenian gata. Well, a very simple dessert and a recipe for baking tea on kefir! Melting in the mouth, sweet, crumbly – the most delicious gata from generous Armenia! Today I propose to cook the famous Armenian national cookies – gata, the dessert recipe of which is simple and accessible to everyone. Delicious Armenian ghata, made of puff pastry mixed with kefir, is ideal for tea or coffee. I reveal my secrets and give a successful recipe for gata with fragrant nuts, which causes sincere and genuine admiration! Bon appetit to you!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Kefir fat - 62   kcal/100g
  • Kefir of 1% fat content - 38   kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30   kcal/100g
  • Kefir "doctor beefy" 1,8% fat content - 45   kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Table margarine - 720   kcal/100g
  • Cream margarine - 720   kcal/100g
  • Milk margarine - 743   kcal/100g
  • Low-fat margarine - 384   kcal/100g
  • Margarine sandwich - 688   kcal/100g
  • Margarine for baking - 675   kcal/100g
  • Margarine dietary - 366   kcal/100g
  • Margarine bold 40 % - 415   kcal/100g
  • Margarine - 720   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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