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Kleinur

Name: Kleinur
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 20
Cuisine: Iceland
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 100g Sugar; 50g Butter; 1 Egg; 150ml Milk; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 20

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Diamond-shaped dough slit in the middle, twisted, and fried — an Icelandic snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kleinur are fried pastries loved in Icelandic homes, distinguished by their unique shape: diamonds of dough are slit in the center and one end is pulled through to twist. Faintly scented with cardamom, they're eaten with coffee at teatime. Supermarkets and bakeries sell them all year.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In grandmother's kitchen in Iceland, twisted pastries are lifted from the pot one after another and stacked on a plate with the aroma of coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 20)

All-purpose flour 400g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Sugar 100g
Butter 50g
Egg 1
Milk 150ml
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, cardamom, and salt and rub in the butter until crumbly.
Add the egg and milk, bring together, and rest 30 minutes.
Roll out 5mm thick and cut diagonal strips 3cm wide into diamonds.
Slit the center and pull one end through to twist.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides.

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