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Gata

Name: Gata
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Armenia
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 100g Sour cream; 100ml Milk; 200g Butter; 2 Egg; 150g Sugar; A pinch Vanilla Extract; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Layered buttery dough wrapped around a sweet crumbly filling and baked — a traditional Armenian sweet bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gata is a traditional Armenian sweet bread made by wrapping khoriz — a crumbly filling of butter, flour, and sugar — in buttery dough and baking. Shapes and patterns vary by region, and on St. Sarkis Day in February and at New Year a coin is hidden inside, bringing luck to whoever finds it.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At stalls along the road to Geghard Monastery, big round gata are lined up and pilgrims enjoy slices with tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 400g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Sour cream 100g
Milk 100ml
Butter 200g
Egg 2
Sugar 150g
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix and knead 250g flour, the yeast, sour cream, warmed milk, 50g melted butter, 1 egg, and salt, and rest 1 hour.
Rub the remaining flour, remaining butter (room temperature), sugar, and vanilla together with your fingertips into a crumbly filling.
Divide the dough into 4 and roll each into a thin round.
Add the filling, wrap from the edges into a flat disc, and mark a pattern with a fork.
Brush with beaten egg and bake at 180°C for 25–30 minutes until golden.
Cool and slice.

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