Armenian Gata cookies made from homemade puff pastry with nuts

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr 5 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   We prepare the necessary products for making delicious sweet cookies with filling.

2. STEP 2

   

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

3. STEP 3

   

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

4. STEP 4

   

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

5. STEP 5

   

   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

   

   Mix kefir with egg until smooth.

7. STEP 7

   

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

8. STEP 8

   

   Mix all ingredients together in a bowl clockwise.

9. STEP 9

   

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

10. STEP 10

    

    We gather the dough into a ball and put it in a plastic bag, which we put in the refrigerator for forty minutes.

11. STEP 11

    

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

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.

13. STEP 13

    

    Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl.

14. STEP 14

    

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

15. STEP 15

    

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

16. STEP 16

    

    After some time, place the dough on a table sprinkled with a small amount of flour and, having formed it, divide it into three equal parts.

17. STEP 17

    

    Knead each piece of dough one by one on a floured surface.

18. STEP 18

    

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

19. STEP 19

    

    We place the required amount of prepared filling on each flatbread, which we then distribute in an even thin layer, not reaching the edges of the flatbread about four centimeters.

20. STEP 20

    

    Roll the filled flatbreads into tight rolls.

21. STEP 21

    

    We tuck the edges of the rolls together and press them well, after which, not pressing too hard, we pass the rolling pin on top of each roll.

22. STEP 22

    

    We cut the rolls with a curly knife into approximately equal pieces of a triangular shape, which we then place on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

23. STEP 23

    

    Brush the top and sides of the cookies very well with beaten egg yolk with milk.

24. STEP 24

    

    Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to two hundred degrees and bake the cookies for ten minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to one hundred and eighty degrees and bake the cookies, depending on their size, for another fifteen to twenty minutes.

25. STEP 25

    

    After time has passed, remove the baking sheet with cookies from the oven.

26. STEP 26

    

    Place the prepared cookies on a plate and serve.

27. STEP 27

    

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Comments on the recipe

Evgeny Orlov

19.10.2023

4.7

I have a simple gas stove, I didn’t bother with the temperature, as soon as it warmed up to 200, I did it, the baking process took about 20 minutes. And yet... it seems to me that 250 gr. There’s a lot of sugar for the filling, for me it turned out too sweet, next time I’ll try adding 150g. So, good recipe.

Oksana

19.10.2023

4.7

Good day! Thanks for your wonderful recipe. The cookies came out just wonderful. Hot baked goods like this are delicious with milk. Mmmm...