Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates. Great recipe for Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates. Maamoul Cookies is a traditional Middle Eastern dessert renowned for its finesse, amazing taste & fresh ingredients. With its roots in the Ottoman Empire, it quickly became a favorite in Arabic countries as well as modern. Maamoul fillings can include dates, walnuts, pistachio, or a combination of both or other nuts. Traditionally, maamoul with dates (also called maamoul bi siwa) is made with a round shaped mold, and maamoul with nuts with an elongated shape mold.
Only nuts-filled maamoul gets sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Maamoul is a buttery pistachio, date or walnut filled semolina cookie.
Subtly scented with orange blossom, so decadent it scrumptiously melts in your mouth.
You can have Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates using 24 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates
- It's 750 g of fine semolina.
- Prepare 500 g of coarse semolina.
- It's 500 g of margarine.
- You need 3/4 cup of rose water.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of blossom water.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of sugar.
- It's 1 teaspoon of yeast.
- It's of To garnish:.
- Prepare of icing sugar: quantity as desired.
- It's of nuts fillings:.
- You need 1/2 kg of nuts.
- You need 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- It's 2 tablespoons of Arab /sugar syrup(Ater).
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of rose water.
- You need 1 tablespoon of blossom water.
- It's of pistachio filling:.
- You need 1/2 kg of grinded pistachio.
- You need 2 tablespoon of sugar.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of sugar syrup(Ater).
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of rose water.
- It's 1 tablespoon of blossom water.
- It's of dates filling:.
- Prepare 1/2 kg of pitted dates(smashed).
- It's 2 tablespoon of butter.
Subtly scented with orange blossom, so decadent it scrumptiously melts in your mouth. These traditional Lebanese maamoul cookies are filled with a sweet pistachio filling and the perfect treat during Eid El-Fitr at the end of Ramadan. These molded filled cookies are deliciously sweet and make for a wonderful dessert or snack to enjoy with your family. So I made two types of filling.
Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates instructions
- In a wide pot, add semolina with margarine, work it with hands till all margarine is mixed with semolina..
- Leave semolina aside for 4 hours in a cold area or for whole night..
- Later, add yeast, sugar, rose and orange water knead all together well into a paste..
- Make from dough small balls as wlanut size, line and cover to avoid drought..
- Nuts fillings: Preparation: Grind roughly the nuts, add sugar, sugar syrup, flavors, mix well together, cover the pot in a cooled area for half hour..
- You may form small balls from the dough to make fillings easier..
- Pistachio filling: Preparation: Prepare the pistachio filling same way as walnuts filling..
- Dates filling: Preparation: Melt the butter without heating, and mix with smashed dates then form small balls,smaller than the dough balls..
- Maamoul preparation: Place a piece of dough in the palm of the hand and flatted, then add around 1 tablespoon of filling to its center.
- Close it then bring the edges together and close the dough on the fillings. Place the dough in the wooden maamoul mold.
- Press it gently with your fingers until it becomes even with the mold surface..
- Slam the wooden mold's edges on a non sticky surface, until the moles maamoul drop out..
- To avoid dough being stuck in the mold cover the mold with cling wrap..
- Put the mammoul cookies on a tray and bake it in an already heated oven on 180° for 1/4 hour until goldiah color..
- Keep the maamoul cool, then using a strainer sprinkle the icing sugar above the maamoul with walnuts and pistachio fillings..
- Finally, fold the maamoul using special papers or keep them in a closed container and consummed when desired..
One is date, cinnamon and orange blossom water, the other is a toasted walnut and honey. For the date filling I went traditional, for the walnut one not so much. Stuffing the maamoul is a bit fiddly, but it doesn't really take that long. The shape of the mold signifies what filling is inside the cookie. Round with a flat top means a date stuffed maamoul; Round with a cone shaped top means walnut filled maamoul; Oblong maamoul are stuffed with a pistachio filling; If you don't have a maamoul mold, don't worry.