Arabic Maamul cookies with filling

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Ingredients for the dough.

2. Step 2:

   

   Combine semolina, softened butter and vegetable oil.

3. Step 3:

   

   We grind everything until we get a viscous homogeneous mass, similar to a crumb. Cover with a film and leave until the next day. You can do it for a few hours, but it's better for a night or a day.

4. Step 4:

   

   When the time has passed, pour the yeast with sugar with lukewarm milk. Mix and leave for 10-15 minutes until a small "cap" is formed.

5. Step 5:

   

   Separately mix flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla, powdered sugar, nutmeg and sift.

6. Step 6:

   

   Combine the mixture of dry ingredients with semolina crumbs and grind thoroughly.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour in the dissolved yeast, mix.

8. Step 8:

   

   Knead a soft, plastic dough. Cover the dough and leave it at room temperature for 1 hour.

9. Step 9:

   

   Meanwhile, we make the filling for the cookies. Ingredients for the nut filling.

10. Step 10:

    

    Nuts are crushed in a blender so that small grains are felt.

11. Step 11:

    

    Combine chopped nuts with liquid honey and cinnamon, mix.

12. Step 12:

    

    The filling can be made to your taste. It should be plastic enough to be molded.

13. Step 13:

    

    Ingredients for date filling.

15. Step 14:

    

    Dates are washed, dried, and the bones are removed.

16. Step 15:

    

    Chop the dates in a blender, add vegetable oil in the process. It is not necessary to achieve complete uniformity of the mass, the main thing is that it can be blinded.

17. Step 16:

    

    When the time for proofing the dough has passed, we begin to form cookies. We roll a small ball of dough and a slightly smaller ball of nut filling. We flatten the ball of dough into a flat cake, put a ball of filling on it, seal it and roll it up.

18. Step 17:

    

    Then the ball with the filling is flattened again into a round cake about 1 cm thick. Using a conventional knife and fork, decorate the cookies from the sides and on top at your discretion.

19. Step 18:

    

    And you can use ordinary cookie cutters. The ball with the filling is placed in a mold and pressed.

20. Step 19:

    

    With date filling, you can form cookies in this way. Roll out the sausage from the dough.

21. Step 20:

    

    Flatten it with the palm of your hand. From the date paste, roll the sausage thinner and put it on the dough.

22. Step 21:

    

    Pinch the sausage, roll it out, press it again along the entire length with the palm of your hand. Cut into diamonds obliquely.

23. Step 22:

    

    On top of the diamonds, you can make incisions with a knife and squeeze them a little in the middle. You can form cookies with filling in any other way.

24. Step 23:

    

    Cookies are placed on oiled parchment.

25. Step 24:

    

    Bake in the oven at 220 degrees. 10-12 minutes until ruddy. We cool the finished cookies.

26. Step 25:

    

    Traditionally, Maamul is sprinkled with powdered sugar before serving. We serve cookies with tea, coffee, milk. Have a nice tea party!