🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia cuisine · #16

Kleija

Kleija
Time60 min
Serves20
Ingredients8

Qassim's famous cookies filled with dates or cardamom sugar, baked golden and fragrant with saffron and cardamom.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Rub the flour with ghee, add sugar, cardamom, yeast and saffron-infused milk and knead.
  2. Rest for 30 minutes.
  3. Roll out, spread with date paste, roll into a log and slice, or fill small balls.
  4. Press with a mould and bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.