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Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول

Name: How to cook Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Rozina Dinaa

Ma'amoul Cookies شیرینی معمول

Ma’amoul معمول cookies is a kind of Arabic stuffed cookies made with semolina,and flour. It can be filled with a variety of nuts and fillings such as: walnuts, pistachio, almonds, dates, and figs.

Ingredient

1 1/2 cup

plain flour (all purpose flour)

500 g

pistachio, chopped or powdered

6 tbsp

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Ingredients

* Step 2

In a big bowl, add semolina, melted Ghee and vegetable oil. Using your hand mix it. Make sure semolina is covered with ghee/butter and oil.

* Step 3

Cover the bowl and leave it overnight. Next day semolina will be soften. Now, add flour, powdered sugar, powdered milk, baking powder, nutmeg and pinch of salt to the semolina.

* Step 4

Mix until all ingredients are combined together.In next step, stir in sugar and yeast to lukewarm water. Wait for about 10-15 minutes, until surface of mixture becomes foamy.

* Step 5

Now, add milk, rose water and yeast mixture to the semolina. Use your hand and combine all ingredients together

* Step 6

And knead it until you have a soft dough like. Cover it and let to rest for 1 hour. After an hour, give ball shape to the ma’amul dough and set aside.

* Step 7

In the meantime, we prepare the fillings. You can have one filling or collection of different fillings with nuts, date, or fig.

* Step 8

Blend pitted dates together in a food processor. Add oil and spice. Mix until smooth. Roll it into small balls.

* Step 9

Mix pistachio powder with sugar, cardamom and water. Make a paste and then give small ball shape to pistachio paste.

* Step 10

Mix chopped walnuts with sugar, water and cinnamon. Make a paste and then give small ball shape to the paste.

* Step 11

Now our different fillings are ready 👏👏

* Step 12

Take one of dough balls. Using your thumb press a hole in the centre of each ball.

* Step 13

Place one of fillings in the hole and then seal it and roll it into a ball again. put each filled ball gently into the mould and bang it against the counter to release it.

* Step 14

* Step 15

If you do not have mould, you can give shape with different methods: a ring shape ma’amoul with following method:

* Step 16

Now fill the log with one of fillings and seal the dough.

* Step 17

Bring two ends of the dough to each other and make a ring shape.

* Step 18

Or Put the filled dough inside the Ice cream spoon and bang it against the counter.

* Step 19

Another method is using a knife or fork and make a pattern on the dough as you see in the following photos.👇👇

* Step 20

* Step 21

Arrange all the cookies with different fillings in the same way. Place all pastries on parchment lined baking sheet and bake at 200C degree for 15 minutes, until golden brown. Once cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar and chopped pistachio.