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Maamoul is Middle Eastern cookies filled with dates and pistachio. Maamoul is mostly prepared on special occasions like Eid and in Ramadan. These cookies melt in your mouth, and the dough has a minimal amount of sugar since the sweetness is coming from the flavorful fillings. Please read the post for tips on making these cookies!
Full recipe: www.munatycooking.com/maamoul...
Ingredients:
MAAMOUL DOUGH
2 cup fine semolina
1 cup all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla or your favorite flavoring
1 cup melted unsalted butter
6 tablespoon sugar
½ cup milk warm or at room temperature
PISTACHIO FILLING
1 cup ground pistachio
4 tablespoon sugar, “you can use the same amount of honey or sugar syrup.”
2 tablespoon ghee
DATE FILLING
1 cup pitted date
¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
1 tablespoon ghee
Refrigerate the dough for 20 minutes to an hour.
Form 12 balls of pistachio and 12 balls of date for the filling.
The dough will make 24 balls.
Heat oven to 190C/374F.
Bake for 20 minutes or until the bottom of the cookies is light brown.