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How to Make Walnut Maldoouqa
Total time60 min
Prep25 min
Cook35 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyMedium
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ChefFatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

How to Make Walnut Maldoouqa

We’re used to seeing and making pistachio maldoouqa, but this wonderful and distinctive recipe is walnut maldoouqa! It’s easy, very delicious, and looks beautiful.

Ingredients

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  • 3 cups water
  • 1 1/2 cups fine semolina
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 2 cups chopped walnuts
  • Ashta cream
  • Nuts for garnish

Method

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  1. Toast 1 1/2 cups sugar over the heat until it turns golden. It’s best not to over-caramelize the sugar so it doesn’t become bitter.
  2. Add 3 cups of water. The sugar will harden, then gradually dissolve with the heat. Once it has completely dissolved, add 1 1/2 cups fine semolina and stir, then add a small block of butter, about a small tea cup’s worth, and keep the mixture on the heat for about 5 minutes until the semolina is cooked.
    Timers: 5 min
  3. Then finally add the 2 cups of walnuts.
  4. Remove the mixture from the heat and pour it into a serving dish, then place it in the refrigerator.
  5. When the maldoouqa mixture has cooled, spread it in the serving dish and top it with ashta cream, then garnish with pistachios, walnuts, or as desired.
  6. How to make the ashta cream
  7. 5 cups powdered milk
  8. 8 cups water
  9. A small cup of white vinegar
  10. When the milk starts to boil, lower the heat and add the cup of vinegar.
  11. Start separating the curds, place them in a strainer, and add a container of qaimar ashta cream with them.
  12. Serve with syrup or honey

Recipe tags

DessertsInternationalVegetarianEgg freeMediumBalanced time

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Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

If you see a recipe written as poetry, it’s surely Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch—known as Umm Badr—who posted it. Between mawawil and rhymed prose, her rice dishes arrive effortlessly and win the admiration of everyone in our group.

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