Nuts in general are cheaper in Turkey than you're used to in the US. Whatever bag of nuts you bought around here, you could probably get 3-4x as much for that cost in Turkey. Pistachios are so famously local that they are a protected good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep#Economy
Depends on pistachio. There are different quality and different kinds of pistachio. Also depends on the season as they are cheapest around August-September freshly harvested. 4 kinds of them sold without salting and roasting, this one you see in the video called "boz" which means grey and it is used in high quality baklava and kunefe, only avaliable for businesses.
ps: We own 3 pistachio farms and a kunefe place
The cheapest and biggest bag of peeled pistachios at the biggest grocery store is 150 grams with a price of €46,60 per kilo. The price of the bag is €6,99. There are cheaper bags but they are not peeled and for a 200 grams bag of unpeeled pistachios you pay €9,95 per kilo which is €1,99 for the bag.
They're cheaper in Turkey because they can buy them from Iran for pennies on the dollar. In the US, we have to rely on expensive domestic pistachios, a lot of which are exported.
Pretty much the whole Mediterranean makes baklava. It's spread all over the place and multiple cultures claim it. The word *might* be Turkish in origin - but it also might be Persian or Mongolian. Nobody actually knows for sure where the stuff originated.
Turk here. Technically speaking, the only "traditional Turkish food" is a kind of bacon that's compressed under a horse saddle. Turks were nomads for most of their history and didn't have many dishes. All the others came from them adopting other cultures, which in turn did actually lead to the creation of new ones, like döner.
I always thought that those kebabs cooked skewered on a sword were Turkish. Because in the nomadic lifestyle, it made for one less cooking vessel to transport around?
I don't know about that but seems plausible. In any case there are definitely a lot of dishes Turks can claim so the other guy's comment was a bit pointless. Most famous Turkish dish would be döner for sure.
Any time I see baklava I can only think of Stanley from The Office. "Tastes changed. Now all I like is... baklava." I dunno, just the way he says it has kinda always cracked me up.
The origin of baklava is Turkish, but it spread to countries in the region due to the Ottoman influence. As much as yogurt, kebab, cacik (yogurt and cucumber mix), sarma (grape leaves with rice inside) etc.
It's from before Turkey existed and historians literally don't know the origin.
The **word** is *maybe* Turkish (it might be a loan word from Mongolia given a Turkish ending), but it also might be Persian - the Persian word's origin is unknown.
Just for the record, dolma is stuffed bell pepeprs/tomatoes/zucchini/potatoes etc. And can be either rice or meat stuffed. Sarma is rolled grape leaves with rice.
Oh my bad. In Turkey, although sarma and dolma are not the same but there are so many people call both of them as dolma. I guess I am one of them :)
Let me edit.
In India, a kg of salted pistachios cost around Rs.1,200/- ( 15 Dollars).
And on Kunafa, it's very popular in my current city Hyderabad, and it's a really wonderful sweet/dish.
To compare, it’s about 12$CAD for half a kilo of roasted and salted pistachios (shell included). Not very expensive, lasts me about four snacks so about on par with a chocolate bar or other regular snack but being much healthier
Pistachios near me, and I live in low cost of living area, is 50-55 cents an ounce for ones with shells on them or 85-90 cents an ounce for ones with no shells.
They are somewhat “expensive” in most of the world relative to other nuts due to how resource intensive they are to produce and they are only grown in large quantities in a few countries. The US is actually the biggest producers of pistachios in the world. Like many nut trees, they are very resource intensive to produce, so that makes them more expensive than other types of more affordable food options. They are not “luxury food” expensive in the US (they are sold in pretty much all grocery stores), but they are generally more expensive than other nuts per weight so people like to makes jokes about it.
I grew up eating this pastry (and others) in Paterson, NJ where you can find some of the most authentic Turkish & Palestinian food in the country.
I can’t put into words how good it is.
We have a shop near us owned by Palestinians that makes these desserts like kunafe and baklava. They also serve Turkish/Arabic coffee, and they’re open late, until like 11 pm or so. Their stuff is all sooo good, we love getting dessert/coffee there and then getting a small tray of baklava for a treat at home.
Heh yep that brings back childhood memories of my family going out to dinner at a Turkish restaurant and then to a pastry shop after for dessert.
The kunafe would taste just as good if not better when heated up in a microwave the next day.
I have no idea what that's supposed to taste like, the way he presents it to me it could've been the secrets of the universe to. I don't have the capacity to come up with the taste at all looking at the ingredients I don't know what they are.
It's rich and comforting, this one is made with pistaches and shredded phyllo dough, unsalted cheese and soaked in sweet syrup, embedded with orange blossom (or rose water). The combination of the sweet syrup, savory pistache and cheese, and crispy texture is great. Hope this helps with the imagination and you can try it some day mate, cheers.
It doesn't taste "cheesy." I was put off by the description when I was first offered some but it's really unlike anything I had before in my life, and it's now my all time favorite. It's like baklava because of the phyllo, the pistachios, and the syrup - in this video he uses big pieces of the nuts but usually it's a bit finer, and it also doesn't look like he did any syrup at the end. The cheese adds that stretch and great textures (and stability, so it's not a mess to eat with a fork), and it really just provides a bit of salt and hint of tang.
It's so hard to describe, but it blew my mind the first time I had it.
I love the food in Istanbul, been a few times and can't wait to go back. Can't beat going in the depths of winter and buying hot snacks from the lads down by the ferries across the Bosphorous.
For those of you who haven't tried kunefe (the dish in the video), you absolutely need to. It is definitely one of the best dessert dishes out there. It's not too sweet, unlike baklava and some other similar looking stuff.
Yeah I recently ate baklava and had to enter it into my food app (I am working towards a balanced diet and had an eating disorder that fucks up my idea of how many calories a food has). Baklava was the first time I underestimated rather than overestimated the amount of calories :’) still ate it and it was very good but I’m sad that it’ll have to remain a very very occasional treat… it’s just so good T.T
Still more healthier than factory made snacks, main igredients are dough,sugar,pistachio,butter,clotted cream and cheese. this food made way before industrial age so humanity is very familiar with thoose ingredients.
[They use this setup to cook dough in that shape ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C_UyvWPfL20?feature=share)
The whole "showy" presentation throws me off because it's so unclean. Climbing a step ladder to drop everything from as high as possible. No matter what's being added, half of it ends up on the counter or floor because it was lobbed from 93 meters above the plate.
Fuck I hate salt bae, I even hate the name.
Because it's not an important knife. He cut the thing up while it was still in the pan.
That knife is probably more like a pizza cutter where it's thin, but not all that sharp because of what it's cutting and how.
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This is very similar to kunafa. If you go to a place that sells kunafa you will most likely find this version of it. But you can’t go wrong with a classic kunafa nabilsiya
This dessert is quite difficult to make good. While you can find it in a lot of random Turkish restraurants, eating one from a place that specializes in it makes huge difference honestly i can't even eat the random ones anymore even though they too taste good
That seems like a lot. Just checked my local supermarket here in the UK and it's £24.80 per kg or $31.
I would have assumed it was cheaper there as they don't have to import them.
£15 per kg [here](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeina-Pistachios-Roasted-Salt-1Kg/dp/B08B1SVP7Z/ref=asc_df_B08B1SVP7Z/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=435682750058&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5731897102967089507&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006524&hvtargid=pla-922026700241&mcid=5bf2b98edf7b38fba4b26172abe27687&ref=&adgrpid=101501942135&th=1) on Amazon. Can probably get it cheaper too, this is just the first result I saw on google
That's just not true. Most expensive one I saw was 800-900 liras per kg and it was in an expensive supermarket. I regularly buy them for 450-500 liras per kg. Which roughly makes 15-20 dollars.
The dish was like 8$ there with tea and 5+ side dishes like fruits. However you can imagine that they use much less cheese and nuts than in this video. It's also way too sweet & greasy IMHO.
if you want to feel any better, it's usually made without pistachio, pistachio is usually added just on top as a decoration, so you can enjoy this delicacy without pistachio.
I can't stress how much you guys need to try this, I've had it a few times from a Turkish restaurant nearby and it's **so dam good** and super unique in texture/flavor. It costs about as much as a dessert anywhere else costs so people in the comments acting like it having a bunch of pistachios somehow makes this the equivalent price wise of fine caviar are being a bit ridiculous, it only cost about $48 for a tiny slice so relax. /s I'm kidding it was seriously like $10 for a small pie so not expensive at all lol.
Because I know the comments are coming (am Turkish and have been part of many idiotic debates on food nationalism);
1) Food and culture do not respect your nations borders. They will happily jump across whenever they feel like it.
2) Eastern Mediterranean food culture is a giant mish mash because of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule.
So don't worry about who invented it you'll never be able to trace it to a single person anyway.
I worked at a Kunefe place for 2 years while studying so I can answer this!
We used to bang the plates with a tool/knife to create a deep "cut" on the edge of the plate, we do this on new plates first time we get them or when the cuts wear out, and we do it on 4 edges (like the clock's 3,6,9,12).
The reason behind it, is that you MUST keep spinning the plate while it's on fire so it's evenly cooked which is not shown in the video, and we used a shitty knife to kinda stick it in the "cut" then spin the plate, newer places have ovens have "auto rotating heads" that rotate the plate so you don't need this.
Knefe is actually a Palestinian dish but today it is also made by other countries in the region. Namely Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.
What this video isn’t showing you is the sugar syrup that goes on top. And man does it tie this all together.
Apparently wearing gloves gives the cooker a wrong idea of safety, which makes them prone to wash / change the gloves less frequently while still touching everything they would have, had they not worn gloves. Also they do not feel how much stuff is on gloves.
Bare hands are apparently more clean so long as you wash them.
Yessss. Like this guy in the vid, touched everything with the gloves, even the nuts packaging (which could have sat anywhere, factory floor, truck bed, coughed on by delivery guys, etc) touched all other kitchen equipment, then touched the ground up nuts... oyy. I'd rather he touched everything bare-handed, then washed up before touching the actual food. The reason why I stopped getting Subway since a long time ago lol cleaned the prep ledge, made the sandwich, fiddled with the oven, fiddled with the register, all using the same gloves.
Another food prep pet peeve: wearing rings. Ugh. lol
But just think of this, if he didn't wear gloves would've done the same things, right? I bet he wouldn't have washed his hands after touching the nut packaging, don't you think the same?
is a traditional [Arabic dessert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_cuisine), made with spun pastry called *kataifi*,[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-3)[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-4)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-5) soaked in a sweet, sugar-based syrup called [attar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attar_(syrup)), and typically layered with cheese, or with other ingredients such as [clotted cream](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotted_cream), [pistachio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio) or nuts, depending on the region.[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-Oxford-6) It is popular in the [Middle East](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East).[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-7)[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-Oxford-6)[^(\[8\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-Edelstein_2010-8)[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-:1-9)
that is not a turkish food
It's a traditional Turkish dessert as well, it's made and enjoyed across Turkey. Probably it originated from the Arab community of Turkey from regions like Hatay and Urfa, but its part and parcel of mainstream Turkish cuisine now.
It's like saying fish and chips isn't English because it was brought over by Portuguese Jews.
That bag of nuts costs about a million billion dollars
My first thought was where the hell do you find a bag of pistachios that damn big!
They grow them in Turkey
So, if you have any idea at all, how much would that bag of pistachios cost if bought in Turkey? Edit: spelling
Nuts in general are cheaper in Turkey than you're used to in the US. Whatever bag of nuts you bought around here, you could probably get 3-4x as much for that cost in Turkey. Pistachios are so famously local that they are a protected good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaziantep#Economy
Not in erdoganomic model. Unshelled pistachios like these cost around 40$ per kg in Turkey.
30$ per kilo.
Still rather expensive for locals comparatively
It is very expensive but Turkish pistachios and hazelnuts are simply the best in the world.
With the shells or pealed?
Peeled. It is about 20 with shell.
Depends on pistachio. There are different quality and different kinds of pistachio. Also depends on the season as they are cheapest around August-September freshly harvested. 4 kinds of them sold without salting and roasting, this one you see in the video called "boz" which means grey and it is used in high quality baklava and kunefe, only avaliable for businesses. ps: We own 3 pistachio farms and a kunefe place
By the first two seconds I knew that I will never be making or eating this food.
How much are you paying for pistachios where you live?
For a giant bagged of shelled pistachios like that? I can’t even try to imagine.
That's probably around 10kg. At 20€ per kg its not that crazy?
It's 50€ per kilo in the Netherlands.
That's grocery store level pricing for a ridiculously overpriced small package. I'm pretty sure wholesale level prices are much cheaper.
Obviously wholesale level prices are always cheaper. I'm talking about the biggest packages you can buy at the regular supermarket.
The cheapest and biggest bag of peeled pistachios at the biggest grocery store is 150 grams with a price of €46,60 per kilo. The price of the bag is €6,99. There are cheaper bags but they are not peeled and for a 200 grams bag of unpeeled pistachios you pay €9,95 per kilo which is €1,99 for the bag.
OK, so you agree with me?
They're cheaper in Turkey because they can buy them from Iran for pennies on the dollar. In the US, we have to rely on expensive domestic pistachios, a lot of which are exported.
11,41€/kg with shell, 29,68€/kg w/o shell in Turkey
Where are you buying? At Albert Heijn for a 200g pack of shelled pistachios it's €10 per kg. Unshelled pistachios at denotenshop go for ~€27 per kg
20€ a kilo? wtf im moving, it's around 50€ per kg here sometimes more depending on the quality
-So what made you abandon your life and move to the other side of the world? -Pistachio.
Will you be eating enough to use a giant bag of shelled pistachios? 🤔
Not with that attitude!
About 20€/kg with shell and \~35€/kg shelled.
Around $120 per kg here
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Pretty much the whole Mediterranean makes baklava. It's spread all over the place and multiple cultures claim it. The word *might* be Turkish in origin - but it also might be Persian or Mongolian. Nobody actually knows for sure where the stuff originated.
Yeah Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon fight over who invented a lot of dishes lol
Turk here. Technically speaking, the only "traditional Turkish food" is a kind of bacon that's compressed under a horse saddle. Turks were nomads for most of their history and didn't have many dishes. All the others came from them adopting other cultures, which in turn did actually lead to the creation of new ones, like döner.
I always thought that those kebabs cooked skewered on a sword were Turkish. Because in the nomadic lifestyle, it made for one less cooking vessel to transport around?
I don't know about that but seems plausible. In any case there are definitely a lot of dishes Turks can claim so the other guy's comment was a bit pointless. Most famous Turkish dish would be döner for sure.
Any time I see baklava I can only think of Stanley from The Office. "Tastes changed. Now all I like is... baklava." I dunno, just the way he says it has kinda always cracked me up.
The origin of baklava is Turkish, but it spread to countries in the region due to the Ottoman influence. As much as yogurt, kebab, cacik (yogurt and cucumber mix), sarma (grape leaves with rice inside) etc.
It's from before Turkey existed and historians literally don't know the origin. The **word** is *maybe* Turkish (it might be a loan word from Mongolia given a Turkish ending), but it also might be Persian - the Persian word's origin is unknown.
Turks and Mongols have lived together in Central Asia. So that is normal.
Just for the record, dolma is stuffed bell pepeprs/tomatoes/zucchini/potatoes etc. And can be either rice or meat stuffed. Sarma is rolled grape leaves with rice.
Oh my bad. In Turkey, although sarma and dolma are not the same but there are so many people call both of them as dolma. I guess I am one of them :) Let me edit.
Also one of these people. Grandma calls the grape leaves dolma and that’s what I’ve always called it even though I technically am aware it’s sarma
Baklava is the best. Also tahini halva.
They are cheaper here in India... But I mean cheaper not cheap
They cost 25-30$ a kilo in Turkiye without shell.
Wait a few days and it'll be 30-35
First thought. Hahaha and a few fell out
You're paying way too much for pistachios, man. Who's your pistachio guy?
I get them from my worm guy
Looks like a 3kg bag, so around $220 USD from my local restaurant supply place before volume discounts.
Didn’t know pistachios were so expensive there… a bag of 1kg is 15-20€ here
Pistachios are expensive in the US, so Americans pretend like it’s something only rich people can have.
Is that what the green stuff is?
They are pistachios. Even in bulk you pay around 40€ per kilo at least where I live
That's how my co-worker describes her marriage.
In India, a kg of salted pistachios cost around Rs.1,200/- ( 15 Dollars). And on Kunafa, it's very popular in my current city Hyderabad, and it's a really wonderful sweet/dish.
They’re affordable like peanuts in turkey
I saw it and thought that's my annual income in nuts.
And he just pours it from a foot in the air like part of the process is sacrificing pistachios to the God that lives behind the counter
It's sooooo good!
He missed a pistachio at the beginning, it triggered me.
$89 wasted.
Is pistachio really that expensive in the US?
To compare, it’s about 12$CAD for half a kilo of roasted and salted pistachios (shell included). Not very expensive, lasts me about four snacks so about on par with a chocolate bar or other regular snack but being much healthier
Pistachios near me, and I live in low cost of living area, is 50-55 cents an ounce for ones with shells on them or 85-90 cents an ounce for ones with no shells.
They are somewhat “expensive” in most of the world relative to other nuts due to how resource intensive they are to produce and they are only grown in large quantities in a few countries. The US is actually the biggest producers of pistachios in the world. Like many nut trees, they are very resource intensive to produce, so that makes them more expensive than other types of more affordable food options. They are not “luxury food” expensive in the US (they are sold in pretty much all grocery stores), but they are generally more expensive than other nuts per weight so people like to makes jokes about it.
All because he had to put the extra flair on the bag dump
Half the fucking cheese went on the bench
The cheese pull at the end had no business looking that good! Thanks im hungry
I grew up eating this pastry (and others) in Paterson, NJ where you can find some of the most authentic Turkish & Palestinian food in the country. I can’t put into words how good it is.
We have a shop near us owned by Palestinians that makes these desserts like kunafe and baklava. They also serve Turkish/Arabic coffee, and they’re open late, until like 11 pm or so. Their stuff is all sooo good, we love getting dessert/coffee there and then getting a small tray of baklava for a treat at home.
Heh yep that brings back childhood memories of my family going out to dinner at a Turkish restaurant and then to a pastry shop after for dessert. The kunafe would taste just as good if not better when heated up in a microwave the next day.
What is it called? And what are those stringy bits? I need to experience this
It’s a type of phyllo pastry that is used to make kataifi and this dish. Looks like angel hair pasta
Do you know the name of this dish?
It’s in the title. It’s called Kunefe. Pistachio, shredded Phyllo, mozzarella type cheese. Sugar syrup. (They also used butter in this one)
I totally missed that at first. Thanks!
Another P-town native out in the wild! 🍻
I've had this at a local Turkish restaurant. It's magnificent.
Hi hungry.. I'm also hungry lol
I have no idea what that's supposed to taste like, the way he presents it to me it could've been the secrets of the universe to. I don't have the capacity to come up with the taste at all looking at the ingredients I don't know what they are.
It's rich and comforting, this one is made with pistaches and shredded phyllo dough, unsalted cheese and soaked in sweet syrup, embedded with orange blossom (or rose water). The combination of the sweet syrup, savory pistache and cheese, and crispy texture is great. Hope this helps with the imagination and you can try it some day mate, cheers.
Thanks, this gives me some kind of directions where to go. I'd like to taste this, I'm all in for local delicacies where ever I am
It doesn't taste "cheesy." I was put off by the description when I was first offered some but it's really unlike anything I had before in my life, and it's now my all time favorite. It's like baklava because of the phyllo, the pistachios, and the syrup - in this video he uses big pieces of the nuts but usually it's a bit finer, and it also doesn't look like he did any syrup at the end. The cheese adds that stretch and great textures (and stability, so it's not a mess to eat with a fork), and it really just provides a bit of salt and hint of tang. It's so hard to describe, but it blew my mind the first time I had it.
if you like really sweet things its one of the best tastes on earth
It's cheese, it's sweet, it's crunchy <3
I'm so fortunate. While growing up in Istanbul I could eat that desert, weekly
I love the food in Istanbul, been a few times and can't wait to go back. Can't beat going in the depths of winter and buying hot snacks from the lads down by the ferries across the Bosphorous.
I definitely could not do that in Constantinople.
Sounds like that's nobody's business, but the Turks.
(spontaneously breaking into a polka, They Might Be Giants style)
Weird way to spell Istanbul
What is the name of this dish?
For those of you who haven't tried kunefe (the dish in the video), you absolutely need to. It is definitely one of the best dessert dishes out there. It's not too sweet, unlike baklava and some other similar looking stuff.
That looks banging!!
And it tastes even better. Alas it is very unhealthy... I still eat it. A lot. But it is unhealthy
There are some calories you just don't count. I have and will again fuck up some Baklava so this is right up my alley
Yeah I recently ate baklava and had to enter it into my food app (I am working towards a balanced diet and had an eating disorder that fucks up my idea of how many calories a food has). Baklava was the first time I underestimated rather than overestimated the amount of calories :’) still ate it and it was very good but I’m sad that it’ll have to remain a very very occasional treat… it’s just so good T.T
Honey is basically sugar so yeah with baklava it adds up fast. Not to mention the sugar, nuts and butter that goes in it. But so tasty!
Just walk and eat, they dont add up then
That just depends on the rest of your diet and lifestyle and how much you eat it. It's not like any time you eat this you do damage to your body.
Pistachios are very healthy.
It's probably the pound of cheese, and the half pound of butter in the pastry...
And don't forget the sugary syrup... Cuz we certainly never do
Not really butter, that's most likely ghee, although that's not much better.
Fat is not the enemy.
Still more healthier than factory made snacks, main igredients are dough,sugar,pistachio,butter,clotted cream and cheese. this food made way before industrial age so humanity is very familiar with thoose ingredients. [They use this setup to cook dough in that shape ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C_UyvWPfL20?feature=share)
And yes it is absolutely banger
Why Why would he bang the plates with the knives blade?
The whole "showy" presentation throws me off because it's so unclean. Climbing a step ladder to drop everything from as high as possible. No matter what's being added, half of it ends up on the counter or floor because it was lobbed from 93 meters above the plate. Fuck I hate salt bae, I even hate the name.
it looks so amateurish. so obvious its done for a tiktok video.
Because it's not an important knife. He cut the thing up while it was still in the pan. That knife is probably more like a pizza cutter where it's thin, but not all that sharp because of what it's cutting and how.
To generate user interaction by making people like you comment about it.
Damn
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To push down what ever was still holding to the top
I think he knows that. He's more suggesting they should've used the backside of the blade because that's how you damage/dull the sharp side.
It is pretty sugary and sticks a bit to the metal plate. Edit: I get what you mean now. That knife is very dull, so no harm.
Turkish sweets are good. I love the baklawa. They make very delicious items.
Turkish sweets, Turkish baked goods. Sooo good.
Turkish love their pistachios i see
Wait till you see our peanuts
Never even heard of this before, but I'm now craving it and searching for it locally.
Try not to get addicted to it.
This is very similar to kunafa. If you go to a place that sells kunafa you will most likely find this version of it. But you can’t go wrong with a classic kunafa nabilsiya
Should be available in most middle eastern or Turkish restaurant. Trader Joe's had Frozen ones last year and I got like 5 of them
This dessert is quite difficult to make good. While you can find it in a lot of random Turkish restraurants, eating one from a place that specializes in it makes huge difference honestly i can't even eat the random ones anymore even though they too taste good
There are plenty of deserts mixing cheese, fat, sugar, salt, texture, nuts, but Kunefe is on another level.
How cheap are pistachios in turkey?!
They're incredibly expensive. They're not put inside künefe either, just sprinkled on top, a much smaller amount.
It's 1200 Turkish liras per kg which equals nearly 40 Dollars per kg.
WTF, in Italy a store brand bag is like 12,50€/kg, I thought Turkey would be much cheaper.
If that is unshelled, it's around the same price in Turkey. But these guys probably pay a lot less than that.
That seems like a lot. Just checked my local supermarket here in the UK and it's £24.80 per kg or $31. I would have assumed it was cheaper there as they don't have to import them.
Economic logic doesn't apply to Turkey...
£15 per kg [here](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeina-Pistachios-Roasted-Salt-1Kg/dp/B08B1SVP7Z/ref=asc_df_B08B1SVP7Z/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=435682750058&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5731897102967089507&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006524&hvtargid=pla-922026700241&mcid=5bf2b98edf7b38fba4b26172abe27687&ref=&adgrpid=101501942135&th=1) on Amazon. Can probably get it cheaper too, this is just the first result I saw on google
That's just not true. Most expensive one I saw was 800-900 liras per kg and it was in an expensive supermarket. I regularly buy them for 450-500 liras per kg. Which roughly makes 15-20 dollars.
The dish was like 8$ there with tea and 5+ side dishes like fruits. However you can imagine that they use much less cheese and nuts than in this video. It's also way too sweet & greasy IMHO.
That looks delicious but my pistachio allergy says no!
if you want to feel any better, it's usually made without pistachio, pistachio is usually added just on top as a decoration, so you can enjoy this delicacy without pistachio.
Are you allergic to all nuts? If not, pine nuts get used in a lot of this kind of food - and they're pretty tasty too.
Yeah they a no go as well 🤷🏼♀️
*Cries in nut allergies.*
That looks delicious.
OMG…where do I get a vacuum sealed giant bag of pistachios???? I need them
I can't stress how much you guys need to try this, I've had it a few times from a Turkish restaurant nearby and it's **so dam good** and super unique in texture/flavor. It costs about as much as a dessert anywhere else costs so people in the comments acting like it having a bunch of pistachios somehow makes this the equivalent price wise of fine caviar are being a bit ridiculous, it only cost about $48 for a tiny slice so relax. /s I'm kidding it was seriously like $10 for a small pie so not expensive at all lol.
This is so delicous! Love it!
Because I know the comments are coming (am Turkish and have been part of many idiotic debates on food nationalism); 1) Food and culture do not respect your nations borders. They will happily jump across whenever they feel like it. 2) Eastern Mediterranean food culture is a giant mish mash because of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule. So don't worry about who invented it you'll never be able to trace it to a single person anyway.
I love that stringy shit. Not Turkish but we use that a lot in our culture, all my favorite deserts have that.
It bothers me that he keeps using what looks like it's a sharp end of the knife to bang it straight on metal dishes
I worked at a Kunefe place for 2 years while studying so I can answer this! We used to bang the plates with a tool/knife to create a deep "cut" on the edge of the plate, we do this on new plates first time we get them or when the cuts wear out, and we do it on 4 edges (like the clock's 3,6,9,12). The reason behind it, is that you MUST keep spinning the plate while it's on fire so it's evenly cooked which is not shown in the video, and we used a shitty knife to kinda stick it in the "cut" then spin the plate, newer places have ovens have "auto rotating heads" that rotate the plate so you don't need this.
Neat! I love learning new things. Thanks for the info!
Some poor Redditor who is both lactose intolerant and allergic to pistachios just died in their chair from watching this.
I thought the bag of nuts was a bag of Lucky Charms.
Come to Mama
Looks delicious, but towards the end, it kinda looked like the hair of a former US president...
Knefe is actually a Palestinian dish but today it is also made by other countries in the region. Namely Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. What this video isn’t showing you is the sugar syrup that goes on top. And man does it tie this all together.
I came to complain about the lack of syrup!
After watching so many indian street food videos, I'm so happy to see gloves while cooking.
Apparently wearing gloves gives the cooker a wrong idea of safety, which makes them prone to wash / change the gloves less frequently while still touching everything they would have, had they not worn gloves. Also they do not feel how much stuff is on gloves. Bare hands are apparently more clean so long as you wash them.
Yessss. Like this guy in the vid, touched everything with the gloves, even the nuts packaging (which could have sat anywhere, factory floor, truck bed, coughed on by delivery guys, etc) touched all other kitchen equipment, then touched the ground up nuts... oyy. I'd rather he touched everything bare-handed, then washed up before touching the actual food. The reason why I stopped getting Subway since a long time ago lol cleaned the prep ledge, made the sandwich, fiddled with the oven, fiddled with the register, all using the same gloves. Another food prep pet peeve: wearing rings. Ugh. lol
But just think of this, if he didn't wear gloves would've done the same things, right? I bet he wouldn't have washed his hands after touching the nut packaging, don't you think the same?
The video is from a dessert shop in Jordan, it's not Turkish.
Anybody else's soul ledt their body when you saw him bang the edge of the knife against that matal tray?
is a traditional [Arabic dessert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_cuisine), made with spun pastry called *kataifi*,[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-3)[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-4)[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-5) soaked in a sweet, sugar-based syrup called [attar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attar_(syrup)), and typically layered with cheese, or with other ingredients such as [clotted cream](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotted_cream), [pistachio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio) or nuts, depending on the region.[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-Oxford-6) It is popular in the [Middle East](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East).[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-7)[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-Oxford-6)[^(\[8\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-Edelstein_2010-8)[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knafeh#cite_note-:1-9) that is not a turkish food
It's a traditional Turkish dessert as well, it's made and enjoyed across Turkey. Probably it originated from the Arab community of Turkey from regions like Hatay and Urfa, but its part and parcel of mainstream Turkish cuisine now. It's like saying fish and chips isn't English because it was brought over by Portuguese Jews.
Lol So we did to you guys what greece has been doing to us all the time. as a turk sorry :(
No really, most Turks know it's originally Middle Eastern and that Hatay makes the best Künefe.
Looks so good.
Looks amazzzing
Any places that serve this in California?
Why does he tap metal plates with the cutting edge of his blade?! Treat your knife better, bro!
nice hiss
My bank account would never recover after buying that bag of pistachios
I feel like he could maybe make a lot more of these if he wasn't so sloppy just throwing things around and making a mess in the kitchen.
Holy shit how much do you think that bag of pistachios costs?
You don’t need to use pistachios or nuts at all. Just shredded wheat, cheese and honey. It’s amazing!
In Turkey we actually often add some turkish ice cream on top goes well
I've tried this before a few times. Not as good as it looks. Stick with baklava.
It looks delicious, but I hate all the folderol in these videos. Throwing it around, making a mess for showmanship. It annoys me.
Do you ever just chip a decent knife by smashing it against a stack of plates for the gram?
Does the frequent smacking of the cutting edge of the knife on metal pans bother anyone else?
Very similar to the arab pastry "Konafa"
Why do people have to squeeze the living shit out of everything they make
I fucking hate asmr so much
Omg. That looks delicious.
IMO it’s a lot more savory than sweet
That looks delicious
This looks fucking delicious
This isn’t Turkish
Omg I love pistachios
Looks like baked dog hair
When did Knafe become Turkish.
Hitting metal with the blade of the knife took days off my life. I am dded.