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Lebanon
بقلاوة
Layers of paper-thin phyllo brushed with butter and filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios, baked crisp then drenched in lemon- or rose-scented sugar syrup. One square, cut diamond-small, is the shared Ottoman dessert of the whole eastern Mediterranean.
Afghanistan
بیچاک
Small turnovers of thin dough filled with spiced potato, pumpkin or minced meat, baked or fried.
Afghanistan
گوش فیل
Thin dough pinched into an elephant-ear shape, deep-fried and dusted with icing sugar, ground pistachio and cardamom.
Kabul, Afghanistan
جلبی
Batter piped in coils into hot oil and soaked in saffron syrup, sold by weight from shopfront pans.