🇱🇧 Lebanon cuisine · #19

Maamoul

Maamoul
Time75 min
Serves30
Ingredients7

Eid cookies of semolina and ghee filled with pistachio, walnut or date, pressed in carved wooden moulds.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Rub the semolina with ghee and leave overnight.
  2. Add sugar, mahlab and flower waters and knead gently.
  3. Fill balls with nuts and press into moulds.
  4. Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes without browning; dust with icing sugar.
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