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Egg yolk Recipes

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Baklava (Azerbaijani Pakhlava) with walnuts, honey and flour — Azerbaijan recipe

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Baklava (Azerbaijani Pakhlava)

Azerbaijani pakhlava is a layered walnut pastry cut into diamonds and soaked in honey — the centerpiece of the Novruz spring table alongside shekerbura and gogal. Unlike Greek-style baklava made with paper-thin phyllo, the Baku version uses a soft yeast dough layered with walnut-cardamom filling. Each diamond is topped with an egg yolk and saffron glaze and a whole walnut half, and warm honey is poured over after baking.

120 min420 kcal25 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Napoleon Cake (Russian Mille-Feuille) with flour, butter and milk — Russia recipe

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Napoleon Cake (Russian Mille-Feuille)

Napoleon cake is Russia's iconic layered pastry: ten or more crisp, butter-rich pastry layers soaked overnight in a thick vanilla custard until they turn meltingly soft. The rough-chopped pastry crumbs pressed into the top are the signature finish. A Soviet festive staple since the 1950s, it takes time but no special skill.

180 min490 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Samsa (Uzbek Lamb Pastries) with lamb, onion and flour — Uzbekistan recipe

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Samsa (Uzbek Lamb Pastries)

Samsa are Uzbek baked pastries with a crisp, layered dough and a juicy filling of hand-chopped lamb and onion. The layering is built by rolling butter into thin sheets of dough, which creates flaky, oven-crisped pastry without a drop of yeast. The golden rule: chop the meat with a knife, never mince it, and use as much onion as meat.

120 min380 kcal12 serves

💪High protein

Vatrushka (Russian Sweet Cheese Buns) with flour, cottage cheese and dry yeast — Russia recipe

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Vatrushka (Russian Sweet Cheese Buns)

Vatrushka is a round Russian yeast bun with an open well of sweet cottage cheese in the middle. The soft, rich dough is proofed twice, shaped into balls, and pressed to hold a spoonful of vanilla-scented tvorog filling. Baked until golden, they're best fresh and slightly warm — a classic of Russian and Ukrainian home baking, traditionally shaped like the sun.

150 min250 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Cottage Cheese Protein Bagels with cottage cheese, self rising flour and egg — USA recipe

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Cottage Cheese Protein Bagels

A no-yeast, no-boil bagel built on a three-ingredient dough: blended cottage cheese, self-rising flour, and an egg. Each bagel carries around 12 g of protein, bakes in under half an hour, and holds for days. The crumb is denser than a classic boiled bagel and closer to a soft roll.

35 min185 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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