Directions

1. Mix water with sugar and bring to a boil. Pour the almonds into the saucepan and bring to a boil again, stirring constantly. Boil for 5 mins. Remove from heat and let the mixture cool.
2. Then, add the egg yolk and mix again.
3. Defrost the filo and spread the filo sheets on a table.
4. Cut each filo along side in stripes of approx. 6 cm wide.
5. Melt the butter and baste each filo stripe with it.
6. On the top of each stripe place a spoonful of the almond mixture and then start folding diagonally the stripe in order to shape a triangle.
7. Baste each triangle with butter again and then bake in 180 C for 20 – 25 minutes.
8. As hot as they are coat them with icing sugar.