Lebanese Date Pastries Recipe | Date Maamoul Cookies

Lebanese Date Pastries Recipe | Date Maamoul Cookies

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This Lebanese recipe for date pastries, or maamoul, blends floral orange blossom, sticky dates and a crunch of pistachio.

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Ingredients

  • 150g unsalted butter
  • 300g fine semolina
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 75g caster sugar
  • 2-3 drops almond extract, or 1/4 tsp ground mahlab
  • 25ml each orange blossom water and rose water
  • 1 tsp fast-action yeast
  • 300g pitted dried dates
  • 50g unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • Shelled peeled pistachios, chopped or sliced (optional)
  • icing sugar, to finish

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