Telli Baba

Ingredients

150 g butter at room temperature
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp plain yogurt
3-3,5 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup shredded kadaif (you can find in international markets)
1/4 cup grated walnuts

For Syrup;
3 cups water
2.5 cups sugar
2 tsp fresh lemon juice

Directions

In a bowl combine kadaif with walnuts,

In a different large mixing bowl combine butter, vegetable oil, yogurt and baking soda and mix well.

Add flour step by step to form a dough that does not stick hands.

Take a walnut sized piece from the dough and flatten the piece in your hand, put 1-2 tsps of walnut+kadaif mixture in the middle, close and roll to make a round ball.

Prepare the remaining dough and kadaif mixture in the same way.

Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake in a 180 C degrees preheated oven until golden.

Meanwhile, in a medium pan, add the sugar, water and lemon juice, bring to a boil and let simmer for 2 minutes or until the mixture is syrupy, then remove from heat.

After removing the cookies from the oven set aside for 20 minutes.

Pour the warm syrup over warm cookies and set aside until the cookies soak all the syrup.

You can coat cookies with baked shredded kadaif if you want.