Recipe Details

Dates and Walnuts Maamoul

  • Cuisine:

    Oriental
  • Category:

    Dessert
  • Serves:

    20 person(s)
  • Difficulty:

    Medium
  • Cost:

    Cheap

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Ingredients

  • For the dough:

  • 9 cups semolina or 1500 g
  • 1½ cups butter or 300 g, melted
  • 1½ cups ghee or 300 g, melted
  • 1 cup caster sugar or 200 g
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon ground mahlab
  • 1 teaspoon instant dried yeast
  • ¾ cup rose water or 190 ml
  • ¼ cup blossom water or 60 ml
  • For the filling:

  • 750 g date, dried, pitted and chopped
  • ¼ cup butter or 50 g
  • 1 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk or 397 g
  • ¾ cup walnuts or 75 g, toasted, crushed

Preparation

In a bowl, combine semolina, butter, ghee, sugar, nutmeg, mahlab, and yeast. Mix well. Cover tightly and set aside for at least 4 hours.

In a bowl, knead the dates with butter, gradually adding NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk while kneading. Mix in the walnuts and place in fridge for ½ hour.

Add rose water and blossom water to the dried mixture, knead by hands until the dough starts to hold together or forms a paste. If necessary, add a small amount of rose water.

Remove a small piece of dough and flatten it with your hands and place a teaspoonful of the filling. Close carefully to form a ball.

Press the stuffed dough into a wooden maamoul mold to form a pattern on the upper side of the dough.

Tap out onto an cookie sheet that is not greased and bake in a 185c for 15-20 minutes or until lightly colored but not browned.

Timing Facts

  • Preparation time

    4 hours
  • Cooking time

    20 minutes