Kadayif
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thumb|Kadayif strands, used for preparing different desserts, including knafeh and [[tel kadayıf]] Kadaif, kadayif, kadayıf, kataifi, kadaifi, katayef or kataïf () is a family of Middle Eastern pastry products. In modern Turkish usage, kadayıf often refers specifically to fine shredded pastry dough used in desserts such as knafeh and tel kadayıf. Depending on context, the term may refer either to the dough itself or to finished desserts made from it.
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thumb|Kadayif strands, used for preparing different desserts, including knafeh and [[tel kadayıf]] Kadaif, kadayif, kadayıf, kataifi, kadaifi, katayef or kataïf () is a family of Middle Eastern pastry products. In modern Turkish usage, kadayıf often refers specifically to fine shredded pastry dough used in desserts such as knafeh and tel kadayıf. Depending on context, the term may refer either to the dough itself or to finished desserts made from it.
== Etymology == The Turkish word derives from Ottoman Turkish ( / ), from Arabic (). In Arabic culinary usage, referred to an older family of pastries, while in Turkish the term later came to denote both the shredded dough and the desserts prepared from it.