Makrout with date paste

Makrout with date paste

This particular North African pastry (popular in Morocco, Tunisia, and even Algeria) celebrates dates. Covered with honey, it is definitely seen as a a diamond form.

 Components

For the dough 

400 g of flour

160 g of smen (rancid and salted butter)

1/2 tsp. of granulated sugar

A pinch regarding salt

Orange blossom normal water

Water

 To the stuffing

two hundred and fifty g date paste

Plant oil

1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder

1/2 tsp. terrain cloves

Frying essential oil

Honies

Preparation

In a dish, mix the flour, glucose, a pinch of sodium, and the salted chausser. Blend everything together using the water/orange blossom drinking water mixture and then permit sit. Meanwhile, prepare typically the stuffing. If your day paste is too tough, steam it and rub it after some petrol. Add the cinnamon plus the clove powder. Divide the dough on your current work surface to a new height of 5 millimeter thick and cover that with date paste. Commence rolling both the doughs jointly to form a serpentine. Then cut small comes (less than 2 centimeter wide) that you will certainly deep fry in very hot oil until they will be nicely browned. Drain all of them and soak them straight in the honey, or perhaps let them cool decrease before soaking them throughout hot honey.