Mamoul (Eid biscuits)

A dessert dish from the Saudi Arabian kitchen.

Ingredients

• 300g Plain Flour
• 200g Semolina
• 25g Sunflower Oil
• 250g Unsalted Butter
• 50 ml Milk
• 60g Icing Sugar

Method

1. 1 Mix butter with sugar until creamy. 2 Add oil flour and semolina and mix. 3 Add warm milk and don't knead too much 4 Cover and leave aside for an hour or less until you prepare the filling 5 For the dates filling, fry some sesame in a pan then add butter. Add the dates paste and mixed well with sesame and butter. Then add a little bit of water until it's mushy. Be careful don't make it too mushy. 6 Take it of the pan, put in a plate until it's cool. Then start to shape balls that weigh 15 gm. 7 Refrigerate for 1/2 an hour. 8 Get back to the dough and shape it as balls that weigh 30 gm. 9 Take the date filling out of the fridge and start to stuff each dough ball with dates ball. Then use the mamoul mould to give it this shape. 10 In a preheated oven 180 degrees, put it for 20 minutes until golden from below and little bit golden from above.

Source

This recipe is adapted from TheMealDB (id 53221), a free community-curated recipe API. Original listing: themealdb.com.

A walkthrough video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqBeOaXvqGM.

Original source noted by the contributor: https://cookpad.com/eng/recipes/16901544?ref=search&search_term=saudi+arabia.