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Cashew Ghoriba Biscuits

Cashew Ghoriba Biscuits

A Tunisian dessert. Ready in about 37 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

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  • 7 oz cashew nuts
  • 2 ⅔ oz powdered sugar Shopping tip: Powdered sugar (UK: icing sugar).
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 ½ tbsp orange blossom water
  • To Glaze powdered sugar Shopping tip: Powdered sugar (UK: icing sugar).
  • 2 ⅔ oz almonds

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Heat the oven at 350°F.

  2. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.

  3. Mix the cashews and icing sugar in a bowl.

  4. Add your egg yolks and orange blossom water.

  5. Mix to a smooth homogeneous paste.

  6. Take lumps of the cashew paste.

  7. Shape into small balls.

  8. Roll the balls in icing sugar.

  9. Move to the baking tray.

  10. Push an almond in the centre of every ghribia.

  11. Cook in the oven till the biscuits are lightly golden, around 20 minutes.

  12. Keep an eye on them, they burn fast.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.