INGREDIENTS 1 ½ cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 cup Horio PDO Kalamata olive oil 1 cup grated walnuts ½ cup honey 4 eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 egg powdered sugar (optional) 1 greaseproof paper | | DIRECTIONS- In a bowl, mix the honey and the walnuts.
- In a blender, heat the sugar and the eggs for about 10 minutes until the sugar melts.
- Sieve the flour in a bowl, add Horio PDO Kalamata olive oil and the mixture of the blender, stir them and knead them until homogenized into a tight dough.
- Roll out the dough into thin phyllo and use hoops or glass in order to cut it into round pieces. Then fill each one of them with a spoonful of the mixture.
- Fold the phyllo in half-crescent and brush it with egg yolk diluted in water.
- Repeat the same process until it rests no more from the mixture.
- Brush the greaseproof paper with some Horio PDO Kalamata olive oil, and put it on a baking tray. Place the skaltsounia in the tray.
- Bake them in medium heat for about 25 – 30 minutes. When cool, sprinkle them with powdered sugar (optional).
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