Karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet
Karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet

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Wearing gloves, take the walnuts and cut off the edges. Then, using a (souvlaki) wooden skewer prick them on both sides. The spoon sweet is made with unripe green walnuts around the end of Spring or early summer, when the inner shell (the endocarp), has not become hard.

Karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet:
  1. Get 1 kg fresh walnuts, small, tender
  2. Prepare 1 tbsp lemon
  3. Get 10 cloves
  4. Get 3 vanillins (powder)
  5. Get For the syrup
  6. Make ready 3 cups water
  7. Take 1 kg sugar

The important thing is that the walnuts are not only green, but still. Taste of Cyprus Sweets Walnut spoon sweet (Glyko karydaki). Drain and return to the saucepan with fresh water, boiling until well softened (you should find it yielding when pierced with a toothpick). Among all the traditional spoon sweets this can be ranked on the top of the list as the best.

Steps to make Karydaki (fresh walnut) spoon sweet:
  1. Wearing gloves, take the walnuts and cut off the edges. Then, using a (souvlaki) wooden skewer prick them on both sides.
  2. Put them in a pot with plenty of water and boil for about 15 minutes.
  3. When they are boiled, wash them with cold water and put them in a bowl with cold water leaving them for 2 days, changing the water about 4-5 times a day.
  4. Put the ingredients for the syrup in a pot and stir constantly so that the sugar doesn't stick. When it starts to boil, leave for 10 minutes.
  5. When the syrup is ready place the 10 cloves in a muslin cloth and add them togehter with the walnuts.
  6. Boil for 10 minutes and let it cool.
  7. Boil again on the next day, skim off the foam and let them cool once more. If they let out any foam during the night, skim it off.
  8. The next day, boil the sweet once more until the syrup thickens, remove the muslin cloth and add the lemon and the vanillins. Stir lightly and remove from fire.
  9. When it cools, store in jars.

It is a bit troublesome to make but if you can get fresh walnuts Take a knitting needle and prick the walnuts, horizontally and vertically. Wash each one separately and place in a basin with water. Leave them in a. 'Glyka tou koutaliou' are sweet preserves served in a tiny spoon as a gesture of Cypriot hospitality. These spoon sweets are made from unusual fruits and vegetables, like figs, cherries, watermelon peel, walnuts or almond stuffed baby aubergines. Karydaki, which means small (or young) walnut, is one of the best Greek traditional spoon sweets.

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