🇱🇾 Libya cuisine · #13

Makroud

Makroud
Time75 min
Serves30
Ingredients8

Semolina pastries filled with date paste, cut into diamonds, fried or baked and dipped in honey — a feast-day sweet in Libya and Tunisia.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Rub the semolina with oil and leave for an hour.
  2. Knead the date paste with cinnamon and orange-blossom water.
  3. Add water to the semolina gradually until it holds together, without over-kneading.
  4. Shape a strip of semolina, lay a rope of date paste in the middle and close it.
  5. Press with a patterned mould and cut into diamonds.
  6. Fry or bake until golden, then dip in warm honey.