Baklawa and Middle Eastern Pastries in Paris
No more macaroons please. Sticky, sweet, pistachio filled pastries are the perfect complement to your cup of tea this fall season. Spurred on by a new Bague de Kenza location in the 3eme, we have been onto these lil' delicacies for a few years.
These desserts come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and mainly involve honey, syrup, walnuts, pistachios, dates, or cashews, between layers of delicate cookie dough. You find some of the best recipes at the addresses below:
La Bague de Kenza (Algerian)
106 rue St Maur, 75011 Paris
70 rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris
Noura (Lebanese)
27 Avenue Marceau, 75116 Paris
Al Dar (Lebanese)
8 rue Frederic Sauton, 75005 Paris
La Grande Mosquée de Paris
2, bis place du puits de l'Ermite, 75005 Paris
try their cookbook, The Douceurs de Kenza. Learning the cake names is fun too; cornes de gazelle, skandriates, pistachettes etc. Also try the algerian "crepe" with onons and spicy sauce mhajib ("mi-haj-ib", quite hard to learn to say).
Posted by: suzanne | Oct 21, 2008 at 08:59 PM
No matter how hard I try I cannot cope with middle eastern pasteries, and I have tried over the years..
Not sure why. I find the food tastes like dirt and as for lentils- URGH! I lived on them in the early 90's- I guess I am "lentled out"
Still, we cannot like everything in life :o)
Posted by: simon | Oct 22, 2008 at 12:09 AM