Kadayıf Rolls with Walnuts and Pistachio (Burma Kadayıf)

500 g kadayıf dough (shredded phyllo) * 250 g butter * 250 g chopped walnuts

For the syrup:

5 cups sugar * 2 cups water * juice of 1 lemon

To garnish:

Powdered pistachios

Melt the butter and let it cool down. Separate the kadayıf shreds and place it in an oven tray. Pour the melted butter over the dough and soak all the shreds in it. Take a portion of dough (in the amount of an orange) and open it. Sprinkle with a soup spoon of crumbled walnuts and form a roll as follows: roll it, first, across the width and then giving several laps, holding the dough in the extremities. Have the same procedure with the remaining dough. Place the rolls on the oven tray which has the remaining melted butter and cook on a 200° pre-heated oven until they get crusty. Meanwhile, prepare the syrup. Bring to fire the sugar and the water for 15 minutes. Add the lemon juice and remove from fire. Let it cool down. When the rolls are ready, let them cool down (until the oven tray gets warm) and cover with the warm syrup. Wait one night or at least four hours before serving. Sprinkle with powdered pistachios before serving.

Kadayıf dough is a fresh dough and is like a very thin spaghetti.