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Daktyla

Name: Daktyla
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Cyprus
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 60ml Olive oil; 100ml Orange juice; 150g Walnuts; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 300g Sugar; 200ml Water; 3 tbsp Honey; 1/2 Lemon; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Finger-shaped pastries filled with walnuts and cinnamon, fried, and soaked in syrup — Cypriot 'fingers.'

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Daktyla means 'fingers,' a traditional Cypriot sweet shaped long and thin like fingers. Thin dough is wrapped around walnuts or almonds and cinnamon, fried, and soaked in honey or syrup. Island families make them for weddings, celebrations, and days with many guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Preparing for a Cypriot wedding, women gather around a table rolling long, thin pastries and dipping them fresh from the fryer into a pot of syrup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

All-purpose flour 300g
Olive oil 60ml
Orange juice 100ml
Walnuts 150g
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Sugar 300g
Water 200ml
Honey 3 tbsp
Lemon 1/2
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour with olive oil and orange juice and rest 30 minutes.
Mix the chopped walnuts, cinnamon, and 2 tbsp sugar.
Roll the dough thin, cut into 8×10cm pieces, lay filling in a line, roll up, and press the ends.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Soak in a syrup of sugar, water, honey, and lemon juice simmered 5 minutes, and dust with cinnamon.

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