{"id":18603,"date":"2023-01-26T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18603"},"modified":"2023-01-26T07:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:41:33","slug":"ekmek-kataifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18603","title":{"rendered":"Ekmek Kataifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_9584-use-edited-1440-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou\u2019ll see it as \u0395\u03ba\u03bc\u03ad\u03ba \u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u0390\u03c6\u03b9 in Greek circles and Ekmek Kaday\u0131f\u0131 in Turkish.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek version (shown here) starts with a layer of crispy baked shredded dough that\u2019s saturated in sweet syrup then topped with rich, dense custard and crowned with kaymak (clotted cream) or whipped cream and a scattering of chopped nuts.<\/p>\n<p>In Turkey, the base is bread pudding (ekmek means bread in Turkish) soaked in syrup and finished off with kaimak.<\/p>\n<p>This irresistible indulgence came from Greek Bakaliko, 7615 5th Ave, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and yes, it\u2019s one of the stops on my <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?page_id=1227#bay_ridge\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Flavors of Little Levant and Little Yemen ethnojunket.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You know you wanna.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sweet Greek indulgence. Read on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-18603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets","tag-greek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18603"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18615,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603\/revisions\/18615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}