Kadin Gobegi - Ladies' Navels Dessert
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cup plain (all purpose) flour
- 1/3 cup semolina
- 2 eggs
- 1 sunflower oil (for deep-frying)
- 1 pistachio for garnish
- 2 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 1 juice of one lemon
- Make the syrup.
- Put the sugar and the water into a heavy pan and bring to the boil, stirring continuously.
- When the sugar has desolved, stir in the lemon juice and lower the heat, stirring for 10 more minutes until the syrup has thickened a little.
- Leave to cool.
- Put butter, salt and 1 cup water in another heavy pan and bring to the boil.
- Remove from heat and add the flour and semolina, beating all the time until the mixture becomes smooth and leaves the side of the ban.
- Leave to cool.
- Beat the eggs into the cooled mixture so that it gleams.
- Add 1 tbsp of the cooled syrup and beat well.
- Pour enough oil for deep-frying into a wok or another deep-sided pan.
- Heat until just warm, then remove the pan from the heat.
- Wet your hands and take an apricot - size piece of dough in your fingers.
- Roll into a ball, flatten it in the palm of your hand, then use your finger to make an indentation in the middle to resemble a navel.
- Drop the dough into the pan of warmed oil.
- Repeat with the rest of the mixture to make about 12 navels.
- Place the pan back over the heat.
- Swirl the oil, until the pastries swell and turn golden all over.
- Remove the navels from the oil with a slotted spoon, then toss them in the cooled syrup.
- Leave to soak for a few minutes, arrange in a serving dish and spoon some of the syrup over.
butter, salt, flour, semolina, eggs, sunflower oil, pistachio, sugar, water, lemon
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/342752-kadin-gobegi-ladies-navels-dessert (may not work)