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'''Kataifi''' or kadaifi ([[Greek language|Greek]] κα(ν)ταΐφι, Turkish '''kadayıf''') is a dessert mafe from ''shredded phyllo''.

It is found from the Balkans to the Levant, and is a feature of Turkish, [[Greek cuisine|Greek]], and Levantine cuisine.

Kataifi is made by drizzling a row of thin streams of flour-and-water batter onto a turning hot plate, so they dry into long threads resembling Shredded Wheat. The threads are then collected into skeins.<ref>[http://www.yogurtland.com/2006/03/11/how-the-kataifi-is-made/ How kataifi is made.]</ref>

The threads are used to make pastries of various forms (tubes or nests), often with a filling of chopped nuts, like that used for [[baklava]]. A kataifi dessert is made by layering a mat of kataifi pastry, a filling of chopped nuts, then another mat of pastry. The pastries or dessert are painted with melted butter, baked until golden brown, then drenched in sugar or honey syrup.

==Etymology==
Kataifi is derived from the Ottoman Turkish word قطائف [kadaif], plural of Arabic قطيفه qatˁiːfah 'velvet'. This word originally referred to a kind of crêpe which was later cut into strips resembling modern kadaif.

==See also==
*[[Phyllo]]
*[[Baklava]]

==References==
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