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Ingredients 18 items

  • 2½ cups plain flour or 340 g
  • ¾ Cup semolina or 150 g
  • 1½ cup or 225 g fine semolina
  • 2/3 cup ghee or 135 g
  • 2½ tablespoons of sugar
  • 1 tin NESTLÉ Sweetened Condensed Milk or 397 g
  • 1¾ teaspoon vanilla powder
  • 1¼ cup desiccated coconut or 120 g
  • 1¾ teaspoon of ground mahlab
  • 1¾ teaspoon of Baking powder
  • ¾ cup or 100 g powdered sugar
  • ½ cup butter or 100 g, unsalted
  • 100 ml Water
  • ¾ cup pistachios or 100 g, boiled in water and peeled, for decoration
  • For the sugar syrup:
  • 1 cup water
  • 2¼ cups sugar or 500 g
  • 40 g lemon juice

How to prepare

  1. Combine the entire ingredients together, except the pistachio and sugar syrup, to make soft dough and keep aside for 20 minutes.
  2. Make small balls with the dough. Press each ball with your hands to form an oval shape; place a piece of pistachio in the middle and press it.
  3. Bake using a non-stick tray at 200 °C for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden in color. Remove from the oven and pour over the hot syrup to cover all the pieces. Keep the syrup for 3 minutes and then remove it by tilting the tray; make sure to remove all the syrup.

Nutritional informations

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