Plain Ghraybeh and Date-Stuffed Ghraybeh Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup ghee, at room temperature
• 1 cup fine sugar
• 2 cups sifted flour
• Ground dates
• Whole pistachios
• Ground pistachios
• This delicious ghraybeh recipe is from our friend and cook on Shou Tabkhin Today:
• Rania سلوم
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• For more wonderful dessert recipes, here is Easy Cheese Halawet El Jibn Recipe
• Also from Arab cuisine, here is a beloved dessert recipe Maakaroun, or Zainab’s Fingers

Method

1. Using an electric mixer, whisk the sugar and ghee together until you get a smooth, creamy texture
2. Add the flour and knead by hand until the dough comes together, while remaining soft (add the flour gradually as needed)
3. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 2 hours
   Timers: 120 min
4. After the time has passed, remove it from the refrigerator and begin shaping it
5. To make it plain, take a small amount of dough, shape it into a rope, and join the ends together. You can also roll the dough into small balls, make an opening in each ball, fill it with ground dates, seal it, and shape it as desired
6. Decorate the plain ghraybeh with a pistachio, and decorate the filled ghraybeh with ground pistachios
7. Preheat the oven to 150°C and arrange the ghraybeh on a baking tray
8. Bake in the middle rack of the oven for only 10 minutes
   Timers: 10 min
9. Let the ghraybeh cool completely before removing it from the trays so the cookies do not crumble, then serve