Armenian Gata Cookies with Homemade Puff Pastry and Nuts

National pastries for tea or coffee in Armenian! A wonderful recipe for making traditional Armenian cookies from puff pastry mixed with kefir with aromatic nuts, which will pleasantly surprise you with its great taste and will definitely appeal to many!
cook time: 2h 5 min
Maya Lindell
Armenian Gata Cookies with Homemade Puff Pastry and Nuts

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

395
Calories
22g
Fat
40g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (50 portions)

Basic:

Salt 0.25 tsp
Sugar 250 g
Wheat flour 600 g
Butter 70 g
Milk 2 tbsp
Walnuts 150 g
Chicken eggs 2 pc
Soda 0.5 tsp
Vanilla sugar 1 tsp
Margarine 250 g
Kefir 250 ml

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
We prepare the necessary products for preparing delicious sweet cookies with filling.

Step 2

Step 2
To prepare the dough, sift five hundred grams of wheat flour into a large bowl, then pour half a teaspoon of soda, one quarter teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of vanilla sugar into it and mix all the ingredients.

Step 3

Step 3
Cut two hundred and fifty grams of softened margarine into small cubes and place it in a bowl with dry ingredients.

Step 4

Step 4
Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl and rub with your hands until crumbly.

Step 5

Step 5
Break one chicken egg into a deep bowl and beat it, then pour two hundred and fifty milliliters of kefir at room temperature into it.

Step 6

Step 6
Mix kefir with egg until smooth.

Step 7

Step 7
Pour the liquid base into the large bowl with the lazy puff pastry.

Step 8

Step 8
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl clockwise.

Step 9

Step 9
Collect the dough in a bowl and knead it well with your hands.

Step 10

Step 10
We gather the dough into a ball and put it in a plastic bag, which we put in the refrigerator for forty minutes.

Step 11

Step 11
Grind one hundred and fifty grams of a mixture of walnuts with peeled seeds in a blender and pour into a deep bowl.

Step 12

Step 12
Pour eighty grams of wheat flour and two hundred and fifty grams of sugar into a bowl with chopped nuts and seeds.

Step 13

Step 13
Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl.

Step 14

Step 14
Pour seventy grams of melted butter or ghee into a bowl with dry ingredients.

Step 15

Step 15
Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl and the cookie filling is ready.

Step 16

Step 16
After some time, place the dough on a table sprinkled with a small amount of flour and, once formed, divide it into three equal parts.

Step 17

Step 17
Knead each piece of dough one by one on a floured surface.

Step 18

Step 18
Roll out each piece of dough to thin flat cakes, preferably rectangular in shape, about two to three millimeters thick.

Step 19

Step 19
We place the required amount of prepared filling on each flatbread, which we then distribute in an even thin layer, not reaching the edges of the flatbread about four centimeters.

Step 20

Step 20
Roll the filled flatbreads into tight rolls.

Step 21

Step 21
We tuck the edges of the rolls together and press them well, after which, not pressing too hard, we pass the rolling pin on top of each roll.

Step 22

Step 22
We cut the rolls with a curly knife into approximately equal pieces of a triangular shape, which we then place on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Step 23

Step 23
Brush the top and sides of the cookies very well with beaten egg yolk with milk.

Step 24

Step 24
Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to two hundred degrees and bake the cookies for ten minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to one hundred and eighty degrees and bake the cookies for another fifteen to twenty minutes, depending on their size.

Step 25

Step 25
After time has passed, remove the baking sheet with cookies from the oven.

Step 26

Step 26
Place the prepared cookies on a plate and serve.

Step 27

Step 27
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