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Ma’amoul Al Eid ~ معمول العيد

Ma’amoul Al Eid ~ معمول العيد

Have you started making your Ma’amoul yet? ✨ Eid is coming in 2 days, and that’s how we celebrate: by making these semolina buttery cookies filled with date paste, pistachio, or walnut. Take your pick.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups semolina
  • 2 cups farina
  • 2 cups ghee
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup powder milk
  • 1/2 cup powder sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. Mastic (ground)
  • 1/2 tsp. Mahlab (ground)
  • 2 tbs. Unsalted butter
  • 1 cup milk (room temperature)
  • 1/2 cup orange blossom water
  • 2 tbs. Thick simple syrup
  • 1/2 tsp. Yeast

Date filling

  • 13 oz. (369 g) Date paste
  • 1 tsp. Anise ( ground)
  • 1 tsp. Fennel (ground)
  • 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon (ground)
  • 2 tbs. Unsalted butter or ghee

Pistachio filling

  • 2 cups ground pistachio
  • 2 tbs. Powder sugar
  • 1 tbs. Unsalted butter
  • 2 tbs. Rose water
  • 2 tbs. Honey

Walnut filling

  • 2 cups ground walnuts
  • 2 tbs. Powder sugar
  • 2 tbs. Orange blossom water
  • 1 tbs. Cinnamon ground
  • 1 tbs. Unsalted butter
  • 2 tbs. Honey

Instructions

  1. For the full recipe and tips plus extended version head to my YouTube channel below ⬇️ copy and paste.
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