I am a big sweet too. Therefore, my favorite type of food at special occasion are, uh, desserts. Specifically sweet desserts served at Novros Baran, the national holiday in Azerbaijan. The sweet pastries are baklava and sheikat bura. They symbolize the star and, um, the crescent. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of filop pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweeten with syrup and honey. It is prepared in large pans. Many layers of do separated with melted butter and vegetable oil are, uh, laid in the pan. A, uh, layer of chopped nuts, hazelnuts and almond is placed on top. Uh, it is also usually decorated, uh, with hazelnut or an almond in the middle of paava. Chakarura is made of dove and filled with fried nuts and mixed with sugar powder. The dogh is rolled and cut into small round shapes, then filled with stuffing and closed up by making pattern of stitches. This traditional desserts, uh, commonly required teamwork. I love palava and chakarbora so much because they’re delicious, rich in taste, sweet, and they symbolize something about them.
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I am a big sweet tooth. Therefore, my favorite type of food at special occasions are desserts. Specifically, sweet desserts served at Novruz Bayram, the national holiday in Azerbaijan. The sweet pastries are baklava and shekerbura. They symbolize the star and the crescent. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup and honey. It is prepared in large pans. Many layers of dough separated with melted butter and vegetable oil are laid in the pan. A layer of chopped nuts, hazelnuts, and almonds is placed on top. It is also usually decorated with a hazelnut or an almond in the middle of baklava. Shekerbura is made of dough and filled with fried nuts mixed with powdered sugar. The dough is rolled and cut into small round shapes, then filled with stuffing and closed up by making a pattern of stitches. These traditional desserts commonly require teamwork. I love baklava and shekerbura so much because they're delicious, rich in taste, sweet, and they symbolize something special.
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