Armenia / Dessert
Gata
A layered sweet bread with khoriz, a dry filling of flour, butter and sugar.
Ingredients
- Flour for the dough500 g
- Butter200 g
- Soured cream200 ml
- Dry yeast5 g
- Flour for the filling250 g
- Butter for the filling150 g
- Sugar200 g
- Vanilla1 tsp
- Egg yolk, for glazing1
- Salt1 pinch
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Knead a dough from the flour, softened butter, soured cream, yeast and salt and work it ten minutes.
Wrap the dough in film and chill it an hour.
Rub the filling flour with the cold butter, sugar and vanilla to a damp crumb.
Roll the dough into a rectangle, brush it with butter, fold it in three and chill it twenty minutes.
Repeat the rolling and folding once more, then roll it out a centimetre thick.
Spread the filling over half the sheet, fold the other half over and seal the edges.
Score a pattern with a fork, brush with yolk and bake at 180 °C for forty minutes, to a deep gold.
