BASTA

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Make and share this Basta recipe from Food.com.

Provided by rachaelnasser

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h15m

Yield 20 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 7

2 cups peanuts (unsalted, or wash salted)
1 cup soft brown sugar
3/4 cup ghee or 3/4 cup butter
10 sheets phyllo pastry
2 cups boiling water
1 cup caster sugar
squeeze lemon juice

Steps:

  • Mill the peanuts.
  • Melt butter and sugar, and mix in peanuts.
  • Brush 1 sheet phyllo with a little melted butter.
  • Add small blobs of peanut mix over the top half of the phyllo pastry.
  • Roll up the pastry into a sausage, starting from the nut covered end.
  • Repeat with all sheets of phyllo.
  • Bake for 40 minitess in oven at 220°C on baking sheet.
  • Put sugar, water and lemon in pan and boil until becomes syrupy.
  • Cut pastries into 2cm pieces, but leave them lying in their strips.
  • Cover in the sugar syrup.
  • When cool transfer onto some newspaper to absorb excess liquid.
  • Eat and enjoy.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 260, Fat 15.6, SaturatedFat 6, Cholesterol 20.1, Sodium 53.4, Carbohydrate 28.1, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 21.2, Protein 4.5

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