DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Kleinur
Erla Steinunn’s Kleinur combine butter, plain yogurt, eggs and ground cardamom in a chilled dough, shape it into slit-and-twisted diamonds and fry them in palm fat before cooling on kitchen paper.
About Kleinur
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Erla Steinunn’s Kleinur twist a butter-and-yogurt dough into fried diamond knots. The recipe seasons them with ground cardamom and uses both baking powder and baking soda in this version.
Cold butter is worked into half the flour until the mixture has no lumps. Sugar, baking powder, baking soda and ground cardamom are added, followed by almost all the remaining flour, with the last portion reserved.
Plain yogurt and two eggs are kneaded in, with reserved flour added until the dough can be handled without sticking to the fingers. The dough rests in the refrigerator before rolling.
Half the dough is rolled thin, cut into diamonds and slit in the middle. One end of each diamond is pulled through its slit to make the characteristic twist.
The pieces are fried a few at a time in heated palm fat and turned to colour evenly. The golden Kleinur are placed on kitchen paper to cool.
Ingredients in Kleinur
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- Wheat flourbase
- Sugarsweetener
- Buttercooking medium
- Cow Milkbinder
- Cardamomseasoning
- Baking Powderbinder
- Saltseasoning
- Vegetable Oilcooking medium
- Eggbinder
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
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- Icelandic
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