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Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates. Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates Maamoul Cookies is a traditional Middle Eastern dessert renowned for its finesse, amazing taste & fresh ingredients. Maamoul fillings can include dates, walnuts, pistachio, or a combination of both or other nuts. Traditionally, maamoul with dates (also called maamoul bi siwa) is made with a round shaped mold, and maamoul with nuts with an elongated shape mold.

You can cook Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates using 24 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates

1. It’s 750 g of fine semolina.
2. It’s 500 g of coarse semolina.
3. You need 500 g of margarine.
4. You need 3/4 cup of rose water.
5. Prepare 3/4 cup of blossom water.
6. It’s 3/4 cup of sugar.
7. Prepare 1 teaspoon of yeast.
8. Prepare of To garnish:.
9. You need of icing sugar: quantity as desired.
10. It’s of nuts fillings:.
11. You need 1/2 kg of nuts.
12. Prepare 2 tablespoons of sugar.
13. You need 2 tablespoons of Arab /sugar syrup(Ater).
14. It’s 1 tablespoon of rose water.
15. You need 1 tablespoon of blossom water.
16. It’s of pistachio filling:.
17. It’s 1/2 kg of grinded pistachio.
18. You need 2 tablespoon of sugar.
19. It’s 2 tablespoon of sugar syrup(Ater).
20. It’s 1 tablespoon of rose water.
21. It’s 1 tablespoon of blossom water.
22. It’s of dates filling:.
23. Prepare 1/2 kg of pitted dates(smashed).
24. It’s 2 tablespoon of butter.

Maamoul is a typical Lebanese shortbread, usually stuffed with dates, but which can also be filled with pistachios, almonds or walnuts. This small pastry that melts in your mouth is very popular in the Middle East. It is often found on holiday tables, including Eid al-Fitr. Make a hole in the cookie dough and push the date/pistachio ball into it.

Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates instructions

1. In a wide pot, add semolina with margarine, work it with hands till all margarine is mixed with semolina..

2. Leave semolina aside for 4 hours in a cold area or for whole night..

3. Later, add yeast, sugar, rose and orange water knead all together well into a paste..

4. Make from dough small balls as wlanut size, line and cover to avoid drought..

5. Nuts fillings:

Preparation: Grind roughly the nuts, add sugar, sugar syrup, flavors, mix well together, cover the pot in a cooled area for half hour..

1. You may form small balls from the dough to make fillings easier..

2. Pistachio filling:

Preparation: Prepare the pistachio filling same way as walnuts filling..

1. Dates filling: Preparation: Melt the butter without heating, and mix with smashed dates then form small balls,smaller than the dough balls..

2. Maamoul preparation: Place a piece of dough in the palm of the hand and flatted, then add around 1 tablespoon of filling to its center.

3. Close it then bring the edges together and close the dough on the fillings. Place the dough in the wooden maamoul mold.

4. Press it gently with your fingers until it becomes even with the mold surface..

5. Slam the wooden mold's edges on a non sticky surface, until the moles maamoul drop out..

6. To avoid dough being stuck in the mold cover the mold with cling wrap..

7. Put the mammoul cookies on a tray and bake it in an already heated oven on 180° for 1/4 hour until goldiah color..

8. Keep the maamoul cool, then using a strainer sprinkle the icing sugar above the maamoul with walnuts and pistachio fillings..

9. Finally, fold the maamoul using special papers or keep them in a closed container and consummed when desired..

Cover the date/pistachio ball fully with the cookie dough. You can press the cookies into a mould if you want to shape them. Maamoul Cookies Filled with Nuts and Dates. These are a sweet and tasty treat on their own or served with an iced coffee. I love walnuts and am always looking to incorporate them into recipes.