Lebanese Filled Biscuits (Maamoul) - 500th Post!

Here we are - 500th post. It took almost 5 years (celebrating next week).

Recipe makes 20 large biscuits (capacity of the mould I used for biscuits is 2 tbs / 1/8 cup)

Ingredients:

Biscuit dough-

1 cup clarified butter (melt butter then cool it; discard white milky part )

3 tbs icing sugar

2 1/3 cup flour, +

1 tbs milk (cold)

Date paste- (or use walnut filling)*

1 full cup dried dates, pitted, chopped

1/2 tbs butter

1 tsp water

cardamom / cinnamon / vanilla (your choice)

*Walnut filling

1 cup walnut meal

1-2 tbs sugar

1-2 tsp orange blossom water

Method:

Rub butter into flour, add sugar and milk and make soft dough. (Of course, all this can be done in a food processor). Wrap and let it rest in a cool spot.

Place dates in a a bowl add 1 tsp water and microwave it on high for 20 seconds. take out and mash with fork, add butter and cardamom  then knead into a paste.

Shape  'sausages' both from dough and paste. Cut into 20 pieces (each). Dust mould with flour then place a disc of dough into it, following by a ball of date paste. Enclose the dough at the top, bang slightly molud onto working surface to reliese your biscuit. (If you don't have mould, after enclosing dough roll between your palms into a ball, press slightly and decorate top with a fork.) Place them onto lined pan. 

Preheat oven to 165*C; bake biscuits for 10-12 minutes, or until bottom starts getting golden colour (top should stay pale). Take out, cool on a rack then dust with icing sugar and serve. 

Keep in a box for up to 1 week (cool spot).

Libanski Punjeni Keksi (Maamoul)

Evo ga... 500-ti post. Trebalo mi je skoro 5 godina za ovo (proslava sljedece sedmice).

Recept je za 20 vecih keksa (zapremina modle koju sam koristila je 2K ili 1/8 solje)

Potrebno:

Tijesto-

1 solja masla (procisceni maslac - otopite maslac i ostavite da se ohladi; bacite mlijecni dio)

3 K secera u prahu

2 1/3 solje brasna, +

1 K hladnog mlijeka

Fil / pasta od datula- (ili koristite nadjev od oraha*)

1 puna solja datula (bez kospica), isjeckanih

1/2 K maslaca

1 k vode

kardamom (ili cimet, vanila - po vasem izboru)

*Nadjev sa orasima-

1 solja sjeckanih / mljevenih oraha

1-2 K secera

1-2 k vodice od narandzinih cvjetova

Nacin:
Utrljajte maslac u brasno, dodajte ostale sastojke i umijesite glatko tijesto. (Sve ovo mozete uraditi i u sjeckalici). Zamotajte tijesto i ostavite na prohladnom mjestu.
Stavite datule u posudu, poprskajte sa 1 k vode i kuhajte u mikrovalnoj oko 20 sekundi (najjaca snaga). Izvadite, viljuskom izgnjecite, dodajte maslac i kardamom, te umijesite u pastu.
Oblikujte valjak od tijesta i paste, isjecite oba na 20 komada. Pospite brasnom modlu, ubacite rastanjeni komad tijesta, zatim kuglicu paste i zatvorite na vrhu. Lupkajte lagano modlom o povrsinu da oslobodite kekse. (ako nemate modlu, napravite kuglice, blago rastanjite i ukrasite otiscima viljuske.) Smjestite ih na tepsiju (sa papirom). Ugrijte rernu na 165*C; pecite kekse oko 10-12 minuta ili dok donji dio ne pocne zutiti (gornji dio treba da ostane blijed).
Rashladite malo, pospite secerom u parhu i posluzite.
Mogu stajati do 1 sedmincu u zatvorenoj kutiji na hladnom mjestu.