Melomacarona Greek Christmas cookies

Greek cuisine is rich in delicious pastries, try it! Melomacarona is a Greek Christmas cookie, without which no Christmas can do. The cookies are spicy, soaked in honey syrup, nuts give the baking an even more interesting taste. You can sprinkle the finished cookies not only with nuts, but also with ground cinnamon and cloves.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 7 % 5 g
Fats 17 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 76 % 53 g
352 kcal
GI: 2 / 9 / 89

Cooking method

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min

1. Pour flour and semolina into a bowl, add sugar, orange zest, cinnamon, cloves, pour cognac and olive oil, mix. Add soda to the orange juice, mix, pour to the rest of the ingredients, knead the dough. The dough is not particularly elastic, but you can work with it.

2. We form cookies of a slightly oblong shape from the dough, place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

3. Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour water, add honey, send it to the fire, let the ingredients melt completely, cook the resulting syrup for 2-3 minutes.

4. When the finished cookies cool down a little, put it in batches in hot syrup, hold for a minute and transfer it to a paper towel with a slotted spoon. Thus, we impregnate all cookies with honey syrup.

5. Then we serve the delicacy on a platter, sprinkle with chopped nuts and serve it on the table.

Help yourself!

Calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Semolina - 340   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Carnation - 323   kcal/100g
  • Cinnamon - 247   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Ordinary cognac "three stars" - 239   kcal/100g
  • Cognac - 239   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Orange peel - 97   kcal/100g
  • Orange juice - 36   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g

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