Desserts
ChefHanadi Al-Ayass
Easy Maakaroon Dessert
An easy, delicious Maakaroon — fried sweets dipped in syrup. Drain and serve cold at room temperature. Homemade sweets are lovely, especially when quick to prepare.
Easy Maakaroon Dessert — one of the tastiest homemade recipes
Ingredients
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- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 kg (500 g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 kg fine semolina (or "farikha" flour)
- 1 tbsp ground anise
- 1 tbsp yeast dissolved in 1 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 cup water
- oil for frying
- syrup (qatir or shira)
- Click the link to make a delicious Caramel Mahalabia
- For more delightful desserts try Pineapple Cake with Caramel
Method
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- Put the white flour together with farikha flour and mix them, then add the melted butter with the oil and mix.
- Add the sugar, anise, and the yeast mixture and mix.
- Add 1 cup water and knead well.
- Divide the dough into equal balls and shape the pieces by passing them over the surface of a plastic sieve to get the desired shape so they become oval.
- Heat the oil in a deep pan and fry the Maakaroon sweets until the pieces turn golden.
- Remove the Maaaring pieces from the oil and drain them.
- After draining the oil, place the Maakaroon sweets in the hot syrup.
- Drain them from the syrup and serve them cold at room temperature.
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- Click the link to make the tastiest caramel muhallabia
- For more delicious sweets here's a pineapple cake with caramel
Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalVegetarianNut free
Notes and serving ideas
- Caramel Mahalabia
- Pineapple Cake with Caramel
