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Shekerbura

Name: Shekerbura
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Azerbaijan
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 120g Butter; 80g Sour cream; 2 Egg Yolk; 1/2 tsp Dry yeast; A pinch Salt; 150g Walnuts; 50g Almonds; 100g Powdered sugar; 1 tsp Cardamom powder

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Half-moon pastries filled with nuts and decorated with special tweezers — a traditional Novruz sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Shekerbura is a traditional Azerbaijani sweet: half-moon pastry is filled with walnuts or almonds, sugar, and cardamom, then decorated with fine patterns using special tweezers called naggash before baking. The half-moon is said to represent the moon, and it's essential for Novruz. The beauty of the pattern shows off the baker's skill.

🌆 Where it's eaten: The day before Novruz, a grandmother and granddaughter sit side by side carefully pinching patterns into each one with small tweezers.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

All-purpose flour 300g
Butter 120g
Sour cream 80g
Egg Yolk 2
Dry yeast 1/2 tsp
Salt A pinch
Walnuts 150g
Almonds 50g
Powdered sugar 100g
Cardamom powder 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, melted butter, sour cream, egg yolk, yeast, and salt and rest 30 minutes.
Finely crush the walnuts and almonds and mix with the powdered sugar and cardamom.
Divide the dough into 12, roll each into a thin round, add filling, and fold into a half-moon.
Seal the edges with a twisting crimp.
Mark diagonal patterns on top with tweezers or a fork.
Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes without letting them brown.

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