Sometimes in the midst of autumn chilliness and winter cold, one wants to feel the warmth and aroma of summer again, refresh the smell of summer relaxation, especially if the holiday was spent somewhere in the East. All this can be realized by preparing something from oriental sweets. For example, Arabic cookies.
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You will need
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- To make cookies, you will need the following ingredients:
- 600 grams of flour;
- 250 grams (pack) of butter;
- about 180 milliliters of orange juice;
- 70 grams of dried dates;
- 120 grams of nuts;
- three tablespoons of granulated sugar;
- ground cinnamon (half a teaspoon);
- icing sugar for decoration.
Instruction manual
1
Pour three glasses of flour into a deep plate (it is better to use wheat flour) in an amount of about 600 grams. Make a slide with flour in the center of the flour.
2
Melt the butter in a saucepan in an amount of 150 grams and pour it into a depression in the flour.
3
Add 180 milliliters of orange juice to flour and butter. Orange juice should be watery. If desired, orange juice can be replaced with another fruit filler or juice, but to maintain Arabic color it is better to take something from oriental fruits. In this recipe, the juice gives the future liver an additional fruity aroma, so the smell of goodies will depend not so much on this filler.
4
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl well and get a silky, tender dough.
5
Next, proceed with the preparation of the filling. Take the nuts. You can use peanuts, hazelnuts or any other kind, both in the singular and in the mixture. A mixture of nuts more saturates the taste of cookies. Grind or grind nuts. It's okay if some pieces of nuts are large.
6
Mix the nut mixture with the remaining butter, chopped dates, granulated sugar and cinnamon. Mix everything well.
7
From the dough, form medium-sized balls and slightly flatten them to form a cavity, put the filling there. The ideal cavity size should be sufficient to place one teaspoon of the filling. Of course, the number of fillings per cookie can be varied as you like best.
8
After placing the filling, roll the ball, that is, the filling should appear inside the ball.
9
Take a baking sheet, put baking paper on it, grease it with oil. Put the prepared cookies on the baking sheet and place the baking sheet in the oven preheated to two hundred degrees C.
10
As soon as half an hour has passed and the cookies turn golden, remove it from the oven and sprinkle the balls with powdered sugar.
Useful advice
As you can see, the recipe is quite simple and does not require a lot of time and ingredients. A cookie recipe is also good because you can fantasize about its content, for example, experiment with different flavors. By the way, for the same decoration, instead of powdered sugar, you can use finely ground nuts or other food products. The most important thing is to emphasize oriental motifs.