Mahmoul with mixed nuts:
Ingredients :(79 medium size mahmouls)
The dough:
71/2 cups of Semolina (no 2)
1-1/2 cups semolina farina (no 1)
3 cups melted unsalted butter
1 cup rose water (may wared)
4 tablespoons orange flower water (may zaher)
Ingredients for nuts filling: (79 balls)
2 cups almonds
2 cups pistachios
2 cups walnuts
4 cups icing sugar
1/2 cup rose water & 2 tablespoons flower water.
Preparation for filling:
Use food processor add and chop finely pistachios, almonds, walnuts. then add icing sugar & gradually add rose flower water.
Transfer into a dish and make small balls. Cover and keep in fridge .
Topping:
2 cups icing sugar to sift over hot baked mahmouls and for later use just before serving .
Preparation:
1.Heat the butter in pan, add semolina & farina and stir over medium heat one minute.
2. Boil rose & flower water in a small pot
3.In a cake mixer bowl add hot semolina and knead with dough hook gradually add boiled rose water and flower water and knead for 5 minutes.
4. Place the dough in plastic Tupperware, cover with the lid, and keep in room temperature about 10 hours.
5.After 10 hours the dough is hard, kneading is difficult, divide semolina mixture into 3 parts.
6.Place one part of semolina In cake mixer using dough hook gradually add 6 tablespoons water and knead about 5 minutes .
7.Transfer into a bowl and divide the dough into ping pong small pieces.
Make a whole in the middle of each dough & stuff with mixture, close sides very well and press into mahmoul wood mold. Repeat again with the rest of the dough .
8.Put flour on the baking pan and arrange the mahmouls.
9.Bake in preheated oven 350 degrees,F. for 22-25 minutes, do not brown them very much or else they will crack.
10. Take out from the oven, immediately sift icing sugar on top. Leave in baking sheet pan to cool completely.
Before serving, sift again with icing sugar.
Mahmoul with dates
Ingredients: (59 medium size mahmouls)
The dough;
7-1/2 cups of Semolina (no2)
1-1/2 cups Farina (semolina no 1)
3 cups unsalted melted butter
1cup rose water (may wared)
4 tablespoons orange flower water (may zaher)
Ingredients for dates filling:(59 balls)
1kilo+250gr. pitted pressed dates (58 balls)
3/4 cup unsalted butter
Preparation:
Dates should be room temperature.
In a container add dates and softened butter knead with hands to a smooth mixture, make small balls, transfer to a dish cover and place in fridge.
Topping:
2 cups icing sugar to sift over hot baked mahmouls and for later use just before serving .
Preparation:
1.Heat the butter in pan, add semolina & farina and stir over medium heat, for one minute.
2. Boil rose & flower water then add to the mixture, mix well .
3.In a cake mixer bowl add hot semolina and knead with dough hook gradually add boiled rose water and flower water and knead for 5 minutes.
4. Place the dough in plastic Tupperware, cover with the lid, and keep in room temperature about 10 hours.
5.After 10 hours the dough is hard, kneading is difficult, divide semolina mixture into 3 parts.
6.Place one part of semolina In cake mixer using dough hook gradually add 6 tablespoons water and knead about 5 minutes .
7.Transfer into a bowl and divide the dough into ping pong small pieces. Make a whole in the middle of each dough & stuff with mixture, close sides very well and press into mahmoul wood mold. Repeat again with the rest of the dough .
8.Put flour on the baking pan and arrange the mahmouls.
9.Bake in preheated oven 350 degrees,F. for 22- 25 minutes, do not brown them very much or else they will crack.
10. Take out from the oven, immediately sift icing sugar on top. Leave in baking sheet pan to cool completely.
Before serving, sift with icing sugar.
Tip:
1.Prepare the filling overnight, keep them in fridge, next day take out of fridge keep in room temperature for 2 hours and stuff the mahmouls.
2. You can prepare the filling, the same time of baking the mahmouls ,you don’t need to put in fridge keep in room temperature, then stuff the mahmouls
3. I cover wood mold with clean new disposable small nylon socks, to prevent sticking ,and to come off the mahmouls more easier ,or you can sprinkle some flour, inside the wood mold shake and place the mahmouls .
