Greek/Turkish food-how do you make Kataifi pastry?

hollydays

That shredded filo pastry,that looks like shredded wheat.
Can you buy it ?
I imagine it must be quite hard to make?

Softstuff

It's one of those things not usually done at home I'm afraid. In Turkey, the housewife would buy the dough fresh from the bakers, and then cook the various dishes at home.
You can also buy it dried in a brick, this is only good for the recipe where it's soaked in syrup.

Sorry not to be much help.

hollydays

I guess you can't buy the fresh dough here then.Maybe have to switch to looking at baklava instead.

Gingernutmeg

I don't know if you're anywhere near London but there are branches of a Turkish supermarket called TFC dotted around the city and they have a lot of different kinds of pastry in the freezers. Also if you're anywhere near Green Lanes (North London) then I'd imagine you'd definitely find some there.

katieowl_2

hollydays wrote: »

I guess you can't buy the fresh dough here then.Maybe have to switch to looking at baklava instead.

You can definately buy it in London....I've used it...it's fun

Mine came from Penge Food Stores, somewhat unsurprisingly situated in Penge, but TLC also have it as gingernutmeg says....

Regards

Kate

hollydays

No,unfortunately I am not near to London.

Plum_Pie

Do you have any Turkish or other Middle eastern restaurants near you - they would have a suppliers who might do some retail as well. Maybe you could ask on a local internet board for your area if anyone knows of such a shop.

hollydays

I will have a look.

[Deleted User]

Every now and then Lidl have Greek/Turkish weeks and I bought some frozen. Hope this helps.

hollydays

Thanks- i will keep an eye open for that as i shop there from time to time

gwydion_2

Typically the pastry is made by pouring the pastry batter into a container fitted with fine nozzles. The batter drops onto a heated turntable that rotates, forming the fine threads.

The batter sets and hardens and is removed from the turntable before packaging. Definitely not a method that's easy to reproduce at home.