Desserts
ChefDalida Zaiter
How to Make Eid Maamoul
It’s maamoul season! Here’s a new recipe for making authentic Eid maamoul... Prepare your Eid sweets and be proud of them! Enjoy, and happy holidays!
Ingredients
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- 1/2 kilo fine semolina
- 1/2 kilo coarse semolina
- 1/2 kilo butter or a confectionery ghee
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar or regular sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1/3 cup rose water and orange blossom water
- 1 teaspoon mahleb
- Milk or water, as needed
- 2 tablespoons powdered milk, optional
- Date filling
- Dates
- Butter
- Pinch of ground cardamom
- Spice mix or ground maamoul spice
- Pistachio filling
- Ground pistachios
- Rose water
- Orange blossom water
- Powdered sugar or syrup
- Walnut filling
- Walnuts
- Powdered sugar
- Pinch of mahleb
- Pinch of cinnamon, optional
- To prepare semolina Eid maamoul, click the link: How to Make Eid Maamoul with Semolina
Method
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- Melt the butter or ghee over low heat and let it cool completely. Put the fine and coarse semolina and the sugar in a bowl and mix. Add the butter or ghee and mix well.
- Let the mixture rest for 6 to 8 hours or overnight.Timers: 480 min
- After the resting time, dissolve the yeast with a spoon of warm water or milk and a pinch of salt and add them to the mixture; also add mahlab and orange blossom and rose water with a little water or milk. Knead well until you have a cohesive dough, then let it rest for one hour.
- Roll the dough into medium balls, make a cavity in each and fill with the filling of your choice.
- Bake the maamoul in the oven at medium heat until cooked and slightly browned. When ready, dust the hot maamoul with powdered sugar using a small sieve and leave the maamoul on the trays for 3 hours.Timers: 180 min
- When completely cool, wrap the Eid maamoul in special maamoul serving paper.
- Dalida Zaiter
- To prepare Eid semolina maamoul, click the link: How to Make Semolina Maamoul
Recipe tags
DessertsLevantVegetarianEgg freeBakedDessertEid
Notes and serving ideas
- How to Make Eid Maamoul with Semolina
