Levant

Ma'amoul

Name: Ma'amoul
Prep time: 8 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 10 h
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Levantine
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups coarse semolina rava (semolina); 1/2 cup maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp ghee; 1 1/2 tbsp sugar; 1/2 tsp instant dry yeast; 1/4 cup milk; 1 tbsp orange blossom water (orange flower water); 2 tsp rose water; 250 g pitted dates; a pinch cinnamon

Semolina cookies stuffed with dates. The Eid cookie, pressed into beautiful moulds.

120 minTime

4 gProtein each

mildSpice

8hPlan ahead. Soak for 8 hours first; the 120 minutes come after.

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Grandma's wayLevantine style.

The original

249kcalsame

4 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

120minutessame

The original ma'amoul.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Rava (semolina)1¼ cups coarse semolina

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)½ cup

Ghee½ cup + 1 tbsp

Sugar1½ tbsp

Instant dry yeast½ tsp

Milk¼ cup

Orange blossom water (orange flower water)1 tbsp

Rose water2 tsp

Dates250 g, pitted

Cinnamona pinch

Method

4 steps

1Rub the ghee into the semolina and flour. Cover and rest overnight.
2Add sugar, yeast, warm milk and the flower waters and knead lightly into a soft dough.
3Mash the dates with cinnamon and a little ghee into a paste.
4Wrap dough around balls of date paste, press into moulds and tap out. Bake at 180 C until pale golden.

Serve it like this

Arrange on a platter, dust with sugar. Serve with Arabic coffee.

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