Persian Rollet

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My Plate, Your Plate is a storytelling and community arts cooking project where participants share recipes and stories. The project aims to build relationships between local residents and people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, breaking down social isolation, building cultural awareness and solidarity.

This recipe was shared by Elham, project participant, hear her story below and download the recipe.

Elham's Story

Photo of Elham by Samuel Phibbs, Elham looks at and holds a piece of green satin material, she wears a black and hite tshirt and her hair is pulled back in a low large bun, she has a tear drop pearl and silver coloured earring and a silver bracelet.

Photo by Samuel Phibbs

Transcript

Elham transcript (DOCX 12.9KB)

Ingredients

½ cup or 120 grams plain flour
120 grams sugar
5 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon cocoa powder (optional for chocolate rollet)
600ml thickened cream (optional to add coffee or chocolate after whipped)
Melted chocolate and chocolate chips to decorate

Method

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180 °C.
Line a large to medium sized shallow baking tray with baking paper.

Step 2

Separate egg yolks and whites into separate mixing bowls. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Add sugar to egg yolks and whip until smooth.

Step 3

Add flour to yolk mixture (if you want a chocolate rollet add cocoa to flour and sift together before adding). Place the mixture onto the prepared tray – smoothing out mixture evenly with a spatula.

Step 4

Place in preheated oven for 10-15 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean and the cake is a light golden colour.

Step 5

Meanwhile dampen a clean tea towel and lie flat on a bench or flat surface (the tea towel should have the longest edge facing you) *landscape format.

Step 6

Remove cake from oven and place ontop of tea towel, tightly roll the warm cake to make a long log shape with baking paper and tea towel remaining. Refrigerate or cool on bench until no longer warm.

Step 7

Whip cream until just dense. Unroll your cake and place cream and any other ingredients you choose ontop of the cream (fruit, nuts). Roll back into a log, decorate log if you like (cream, chocolate, nuts etc) and slice to serve.

Allergy warning

Contains egg, dairy, gluten

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