Mamoul (Eid biscuits)

DessertSaudi Arabian
Mamoul (Eid biscuits)

Ingredients

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

Instructions

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.