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Mamoul (Eid biscuits)

Mamoul (Eid biscuits)

A Saudi Arabian dessert. Ready in about 37 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

Fresh & other

  • 11 oz all-purpose flour Shopping tip: All-purpose flour (UK: plain flour).
  • 7 oz semolina
  • 9 oz unsalted butter
  • 3 ½ tbsp milk
  • 2 oz powdered sugar Shopping tip: Powdered sugar (UK: icing sugar).

Sauces & oils

  • 1 oz sunflower oil

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Mix butter with sugar until creamy.

  2. Add oil flour and semolina.

  3. Mix.

  4. Add warm milk plus don't knead too much.

  5. Cover.

  6. Leave to one side for an hour or less till you prepare the filling.

  7. For the dates filling.

  8. Fry sesame in a pan then add butter.

  9. Add the dates paste and mixed fully with sesame and butter.

  10. Add a little bit of water till it's mushy.

  11. Be careful don't it too mushy.

  12. Take it of the pan.

  13. Put in a plate till it's cool, start.

  14. Shape balls that weigh 15 gm.

  15. Refrigerate for 1 2 an hour.

  16. Get back to the dough.

  17. Shape it as balls weigh 30 gm.

  18. Take your date filling out of your fridge and start to stuff every dough ball with dates ball.

  19. Use your mamoul mould to give it this shape.

  20. Put it for 20 min till golden from below plus little bit golden from above in a heat the oven 180 degrees.

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