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Gosh-e Fil
Crisp Afghan elephant-ear pastries dusted with cardamom sugar and pistachio.
About Gosh-e Fil
Gosh-e Fil is an Afghan fried pastry named for its elephant-ear shape. This profile follows Sumaya Durrani's family version, with a thin enriched dough pinched at the centre and finished with cardamom, powdered sugar and pistachio.
The pastry is gently sweet, milky and egg-rich, with fragrant cardamom and a distinctly nutty pistachio finish. Frying gives the restrained dough a crisp, toasted edge beneath the cool sugar dusting.
Each piece is thin, lightly blistered and pale golden, gathered into a bow-like ear shape. The surface is dry and crisp, with a powdery white-and-green finish from sugar and ground pistachio.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg, Pistachios.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Gosh-e Fil
Afghan Gosh-e Fil with Cardamom and Pistachio.
- Wheat flourThin pastry structure
- Warm milkDough hydration and richness
- EggsDough richness and binding
- Himalayan saltSeasoning
- Olive oilDough tenderness
- Ground cardamomAromatic finish
- Finely ground pistachioNutty finish
- Powdered sugarSweet dusting
- Neutral frying oilDeep-frying medium
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Wheat flour:
- Warm milk:
- Eggs:
- Himalayan salt: . The broader salt route retains the source's Himalayan form
- Olive oil:
- Ground cardamom: . The broader cardamom route retains the source's ground form
- Finely ground pistachio:
- Powdered sugar:
- Neutral frying oil: . The source requires a neutral high-smoke-point oil but does not identify its botanical origin; the broader vegetable-oil route remains explicitly unresolved
Origins & food traditions
Cooking with Zahra supplies Sumaya Durrani's complete family recipe and identifies it as a Nowruz-linked inherited preparation. The Gosh-e Fil reference independently corroborates the Afghan and Iranian fried-pastry identity, the elephant-ear shaping, and the Afghan powdered-sugar and pistachio finish. This profile fixes the source's Afghan family version rather than combining it with the Iranian doogh service.
Countries
- Afghanistan
- AfghanistanCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Afghan Cuisine
- Afghan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.