I like these cookies especially with tea after diner, or while I am studying. I found this receipe from my favorite cooking book Homebaking.
It is very popular in the Middle East.
Ingredients:
Dough
- 1 tsp active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup warm water
- 2 tsp orange zest
- 1 egg
- 1 stick (4 oz) butter
- 1.5 cup fine semolina
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup milk
Filling
- 3/4 cup date
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 1.5 tsp water
- Dissolve yeast with water inside a large dish. Add orage zest, egg and butter, and mix well.
- Add first semolina than sugar, and stir. Add flour and make a dough. It should be break easily but when pressed together it should stick together.
- Cover with a damp cloth and leave it for one hour.
- While the dough is resting, put all the filling ingredients in a blender and make a paste.
- When it is ready, take a tbsp size dough, first make a ball, than flaten it in your palm, and put 1.5 tsp filling inside the dough. Close and make it round again.
- Put the cookies in oiled oven sheet, leaving 0.5 inch distance in between.
- Using a fork, make holes on top of it and brush the top with milk.
- Heat the oven to 350F. Bake the cookies aproximately 20-25 minutes untill the bottom of them become golden brown.
- Place on a rack to cool.
Bon appetit.
