Kifle Food

KIFLI RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Take a large bowl and add yeast, sugar, and water, stir, and let it stay for 10-15 minutes. 2. In a separate bowl, add the flour, make a hole in the middle, and fill it with milk, yogurt, eggs, oil, and salt. 3. Add the yeast mixture from step 1 to the flour mixture and mix it well. 4. Start kneading the dough (it shouldn't be too sticky nor too dry). If you want to, you can use a stand mixer with a dough hook. 5. Spray some cooking spray and sprinkle some flour in your mixing bowl, move the dough there, cover it and keep it aside. 6. Make small cuts in the crust and keep it aside for 20-30 minutes. 7. Add some shredded feta cheese to a bowl and keep it aside for later. 8. Turn on your oven to 200˚C (400˚F). 9. Sprinkle some flour on your work surface and fold the dough on all sides. 10. Divide the dough into half and cut both halves into three equal pieces. Fold the pieces into balls before rolling them. 11. Take the first ball and roll it out into a medium-sized circle. 12. Cut the ball into 2-3 equal pieces, add 1 tbsp of cheese in the middle of every piece, and close the first kifla by pulling together the widest parts of the dough and tucking them inwards. 13. Repeat the process as many times as needed and add some baking sheets to your pan before placing the kifli inside the oven. 14. In the meantime, mix together 1 or 2 beaten eggs and water until the mixture combines. 14. After 7-8 minutes of baking at 200˚C (400˚F) before glazing the kifli with a mix of beaten eggs and water. 15. Bake for 10 more minutes and sprinkle some sesame seeds before turning the heat off (in the end, the kifli should have a golden-brown color). 16. Serve it with some yogurt, ajvar, or a dish of your choice, and enjoy!

KIFLE - YUGOSLAVIAN WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Put sifted flour into large mixing bowl. Mix in yeast. Cut in margarine with pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
• Add egg yolks and sour cream; mix well. Form into a ball. On lightly floured board, knead until smooth, 5 to 10 minutes. Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Wrap in wax paper. Chill in refrigerator at least 1 hour.
• Combine walnuts, sugar and vanilla extract. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Set aside.
• On a board sprinkled with confectioners sugar, roll each part of dough into an 8-inch circle; cut each into 8 pie-shape wedges.
• Fill wide end of each wedge with 1 tablespoon walnut filling. Roll up from wide end to point. Place on greased baking sheet, curving ends to form crescent shape.
• Bake at 375 degrees F about 25 minutes or until golden brown. Dust with confectioners sugar.

ROMANIAN NUT ROLL (KIFLA)

Steps:

• Mix ingredients for filling, set aside.
• In another bowl, mix yeast, milk, 1 teaspoon sugar, and vanilla together and set aside for about 10 minutes.
• In a third bowl, mix flour and 1/2 cup sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles course crumbs.
• Add eggs, salt and sour cream, then add yeast mixture, mix and knead well until dough is shiny (about 15 minutes).
• Divide into 4 balls. Roll out each ball to about 9" x 13" and spoon 1/4 of the nut filling over each.
• Starting at the narrow end, roll dough into a loaf. Pinch the ends and fold them under. With the seam side down, let loaves rise in greased pan for 2 hours.
• Brush with beaten egg and bake at 350 for 35 to 40 minutes.

FLEISCHMANN'S KIFLE

Steps:

• Mix sour cream and water; heat until warm (105 to 115F).
• Stir in yeast; let stand 3 minutes or until yeast is dissolved; set aside.
• In large bowl, combine butter and 1/2 cup flour; stir in sour cream mixture.
• Stir in egg yolks and enough remaining flour to make soft dough.
• Divide dough into 3 equal pieces.
• Wrap in airtight plastic wrap; chill at least 2 hours or up to 3 days.
• Lightly dust work surface with sugar.
• Roll each piece of dough to 12-inch circle; cut into 8 pie-shaped wedges.
• Spread each wedge with about 1 tablespoon filling.
• Roll up from wide ends to make crescents.
• Place, with points down, on greased baking sheets.
• Bake at 375F for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
• Remove from baking sheets; cool on wire racks.
• Makes 24 to 30 cookies.
• Filling----------.
• In medium bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add sugar and vanilla extract; continue beating until very stiff but not dry.
• Stir in ground walnuts and chopped dates or pitted dates (snipped) OR mini chocolate chips.

KIFLES (NUT ROLLS OR HORNS)

Steps:

• Combine nuts, sugar and vanilla.
• Fold in egg whites; set aside.
• Put flour into a large bowl.
• Add the yeast to the egg yolks in a small bowl and let soften.
• Cut butter into the flour until crumbly.
• Add egg yolks and yeast and sour cream.
• Mix well until it forms a smooth ball.
• Form into 10 balls and chill.
• Mix 1 cup granulated and 1 cup powdered sugar.
• On counter top, sprinkle a spoonful of sugar mixture, place 1 ball on the sugar, add more sugar on top, roll out ball Roll until dough is 1/8-inch thick, forming a circle.
• Cut the circle into 8 pie-shaped wedges.
• Fill the wide end of each wedge with 1 level teaspoon of filling.
• Roll from wide end to the point.
• Continue with all the balls.
• Place on greased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 325°F for 15 minutes.

HUNGARIAN KIFLI II

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Stir in the egg yolks and vanilla. Stir together the flour and baking powder. Add the flour mixture a little at a time until it is fully incorporated. Divide dough into 5 parts, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate overnight.
• in a medium bowl, beat egg whites to soft peaks, add sugar a little at a time while continuing to beat to stiff peaks. Fold in ground walnuts, and set aside. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4 to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into 3 inch squares, place 1/2 teaspoon of filling in the center of each square and roll up from corner to corner. Place on cookie sheets and refrigerate until hardened.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake cookies for 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Roll in confectioners' sugar when cool.

HUNGARIAN KIFFLES

Steps:

• Beat butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer until pale yellow and creamy. Gradually add 2 cups flour to butter mixture until the dough is too thick for the mixer. Stir remaining 2 cups flour into the butter mixture by hand and knead until dough falls off hands easily. Roll dough into a ball, place in bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Stir walnuts and sugar together in a bowl. Pour milk into walnut mixture and stir to form a paste.
• Turn dough onto a floured work surface and roll to desired thickness. Cut dough into 2-inch squares. Place about 1 teaspoon walnut filling in the center of each square. Roll the dough from 1 corner to the other corner around the walnut filling and transfer to a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until light brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

GERMAN KIPFELS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Put flour on counter.
• Make hole in the middle to put other ingredients.
• Add yeast, water, salt, vanilla, sugar, eggs, baking powder and butter to middle of flour.
• Knead dough until all ingredients are mixed. (Alternatively, use Kitchenaid with paddle blade to combine ingredients. First cream together butter and sugar; add eggs and vanilla; whisk together dry ingredients and add to wet alternating with water.).
• Roll a fourth of the dough out on to the counter to 1/8" thickiness (Make sure the dough is rolled very thin).
• Cut dough into 3x3 inch squares using a pizza cutter.
• Put 5 chocolate chips in the middle.
• Roll dough from corner. Cookie should look like a crescent roll. Make sure to pinch the dough together so they don't unroll when cooking.
• Place on parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
• Let cool for ~10 minutes.
• Roll in powdered sugar using a zip lock bag.
• Put cookies in container/ziplock and store in the freezer for best taste.