Shirini papioni is one of the simplest and most delicious Iranian sweets. It is made with a thousand-layer dough. It is a delightful and simple pastry, similar to a bowtie, decorated with powdered sugar.
This pastry is easy to prepare, and people who like baking have homemade cakes and sweets. They can easily prepare this Persian sweet with Thousand-layer dough at home.
It is also possible to prepare a thousand-layer dough at home or buy it ready-made for convenience. This sweet is used in parties and Nowruz celebrations and is served with tea and hot drinks.
Ingredient:
| Thousand-layer dough | as needed |
| Honey | Two tablespoons |
| Rose water | one tablespoon |
| Pistachio slice | as needed |
| Powdered sugar | as much as needed |
Syrup ingredients
| Sugar | two glasses |
| Rose water | a quarter of a glass |
| Water | A glass |
| Brewed saffron | two tablespoons |
| Lemon juice | one tablespoon |
Instruction:
1. Open the Thousand-layer dough and cut it with a sharp knife. We usually need 2 x 5 cm pieces for bowtie sweets.
2. Then, we wrap the dough from the middle with our two fingers like a bow and set it aside.
3. Then, to prepare the syrup on the sweets, we can use both the combination of honey and rose water and the combination of saffron syrup. Finally, we put the sweets in the saffron syrup.
4. I use a combination of honey and rose water, and before placing the cookies in the oven, I apply this mixture to the cookies with a brush.
5. Then, we put greaseproof paper on the bottom of the oven tray and place the sweets on the paper in order.
6. We heat the oven to 190-200 degrees Celsius and put the sweets in the oven with heat from above and below.
The baking time is between 15 and 20 minutes until the bottom and top of the cookies are completely golden.
7. After the bottom and top of the cookies are completely golden, you can take them out of the oven. Then, wait for the sweets to cool down and decorate with powdered sugar.
In the other model, instead of powdered sugar, you can use shirini papioni with special syrup.
In this model, the bow tie sweets are placed in the syrup, and after a few minutes, they take it out and use it.
Notes
1. I use Thousand-layer dough to make bow ties because it saves time and money.
2. Thousand-layer dough paste should be kept away from air and humidity, as it will lose shape and be difficult to work with.
3. To pour powdered sugar on this sweet, you have to wait until it cools down, and pouring it on a hot cake will cause it to melt.
4. You can use pistachio slices or almond slices to decorate this sweet.
5. Besides this sweet, Shirini Latifeh and Shirini Danmarki are served in Iranian wedding ceremonies.
Conclusion
At the end of this article, I suggest that you make this traditional Iranian sweet and use it in your parties and gatherings. Ask your friends for their opinions about this sweet and send it to me. Let’s discuss all the positive and negative comments here and solve your challenges.
What is the meaning of papioni?
Similar to bow ties