Basta

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 2 cups peanuts (unsalted, or wash salted)
• 1 cup soft brown sugar
• 3/4 cup ghee or 3/4 cup butter
• 10 sheets phyllo pastry
• 2 cups boiling water
• 1 cup caster sugar
• squeeze lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 mill the peanuts.
• 2 melt butter and sugar, and mix in peanuts.
• 3 brush 1 sheet phyllo with a little melted butter.
• 4 add small blobs of peanut mix over the top half of the phyllo pastry.
• 5 roll up the pastry into a sausage, starting from the nut covered end.
• 6 repeat with all sheets of phyllo.
• 7 bake for 40 minitess in oven at 220°c on baking sheet.
• 8 put sugar, water and lemon in pan and boil until becomes syrupy.
• 9 cut pastries into 2cm pieces, but leave them lying in their strips.
• 10 cover in the sugar syrup.
• 11 when cool transfer onto some newspaper to absorb excess liquid.
• 12 eat and enjoy.