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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Sprinkle almonds and sesame seeds onto a baking sheet. Lightly brown in oven 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. In a blender or food processor, process browned almonds and sesame seeds about 1/3 at a time until finely ground. | 2. In a medium bowl, combine ground almond mixture and 1/2 cup sugar; set aside. | 3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out thawed pastry; cut into 5 (10-inch) circles. Rinse a 10-inch springform pan with cold water (do not dry pan). Place 1 pastry circle in bottom of wet pan; sprinkle with 1/4 of the almond mixture. Top with another pastry circle. Continue layering pastry circles and almond mixture, ending with a pastry circle. Brush egg yolk over top pastry; cut cake into 12 wedges. | 4. Bake 30 minutes; reduce heat to 300ºF. Bake 20 to 30 minutes longer or until golden brown. | 5. In a small saucepan, combine remaining 1 cup sugar and water. Bring to a boil. Stirring constantly, boil 5 minutes. Stir in lemon juice and rose water. Cool syrup slightly. With cake still in pan, pour warm syrup over hot cake. Serve warm. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
puff pastry	1	package	thawed frozen	-	-	-	-
almond	3 1/2	cups	sliced	6744.92	0.0	0.0	763.0
sesame seed	3	cups		4104.0	188.56799999999998	128.232	345.6
sugar	1 1/2	cups	granulated	479.7	90.012	15.015	7.4879999999999995
egg yolk	1		beaten	54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lemon	1			1.2808	0.4116	0.0486	0.0132
rose water	1	tablespoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.