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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.
Cyprus
Μπουρέκια
Small fried pastries filled with fresh anari, cinnamon and sugar, dusted with icing sugar while still hot.
Cyprus
Ελιόπιτα
Eliopita is a Cypriot olive pie filled with chopped black olives, onion and herbs inside a yeasted dough.
Cyprus
Φλαούνα
Easter pastry filled with a mixture of local cheeses, egg, mint and raisins, brushed with egg and crusted with sesame.
Cyprus
Κολοκοτές
Cypriot pastries of dough filled with pumpkin, bulgur and cinnamon, baked at Christmas.
Greece
Λουκουμάδες
Greek deep-fried dough balls, golden and crispy, soaked in honey syrup and sprinkled with cinnamon and sesame. A festival and street dessert, sweet and sticky, a national treat, ancient origin.
Cyprus
Σιάμισι
Thin dough wrapped around semolina custard and deep-fried, then rolled in sugar and eaten hot from the pan.