Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies. Barazeks are cookies filled with roasted sesame seeds and pistachio chips from Syria. These crunchy biscuits are made of a fine sweet dough, very rich in butter and without egg. The texture, both sandy and melting, is similar to that of shortbreads, the famous Scottish butter biscuits.
You can have Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies
- You need of Dough:.
- Prepare 3 1/2 cups of flour.
- It’s 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, superfine.
- Prepare 255 1/8 g of butter.
- It’s 1 cup of milk.
- It’s 255 1/8 g of sesame seeds.
- It’s 5 1/2 cups of pistachios, crushed.
- It’s 1 tablespoon of butter, melted.
- You need 1 tablespoon of yeast, active dry.
- Prepare of Sugar Syrup:.
- You need 1 cup of powdered sugar, superfine.
- It’s 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
- You need 1 teaspoon of rosewater, or orange blossoms.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of water.
Arrange barazek on a baking sheet with the sesame side up. Place each cookie on a greased sheet. Cover each cookie with a drizzle of the sesame seed and honey mixture. This honey sesame cookies recipe from Corsica most likely originated in Turkey centuries ago, since it is essentially the same as the Turkish barazek.
Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies instructions
For the Sugar Syrup, boil the water and sugar in a sauce pan then leave over medium heat till the syrup begins to thicken. Add the lemon juice and rose water or orange-blossoms water. Set aside to cool..
For the Dough, mix the butter and sugar in a bowl till soft..
Add in the flour, yeast and milk, and mix till you get a dough. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes..
Meanwhile, mix together the sesame seeds, melted butter and the sugar syrup. Place in a flat plate..
Place the pistachios in a flat plate..
Roll the dough into small balls then flatten into circular cookies..
Dip one side of each cookie in the sesame mixture and the other side in the crushed pistachios, then arrange cookies in a baking tray and bake for 10 minutes..
Leave to cool..
A coating of honey-dipped, toasted sesame seeds is what gives these delicious cookies their special kick. These are scrumptious and famous Syrian cookies called "Barazek" I used to eat the entire box when my mother would get some from a family owned bakery in Dam. The barazek recipe in the #CookForSyria cookbook was donated by Dalia Dogmoch Soubra (@DaliasKitchen), a Syrian-German food editor and author. Barazek are famous Syrian specialty cookies from the Midan area. The eggless, crispy cookie is delicately thin and usually comes in tightly packed boxes from renowned Syrian bakeries.
