Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, traditional stuffed melomakarona. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
These Greek Christmas honey cookies (melomakarona) are super quick to bake, so much fun to make and highly addictive! Immediately after baking, melomakarona cookies are doused in honey syrup, then sprinkled with ground walnuts. Although some argue that another Greek treat that goes under the name finikia refers. Today i have for you the recipe for Greek Traditional Christmas Melomakarona!!!!!
Traditional stuffed melomakarona is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Traditional stuffed melomakarona is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional stuffed melomakarona using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional stuffed melomakarona:
- Prepare For the dough
- Prepare 750 g self-rising flour
- Get 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 packet baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Get 3 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 1 cup orange juice
- Prepare 1/4 cup brandy
- Take 1 tbsp ground clove and cinnamon
- Prepare For the syrup
- Prepare 2 cups water
- Get 1 1/2 cups honey
- Prepare 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Make ready For the stuffing and sprinkling
- Make ready 1 cup ground walnuts
Cover them well with plastic wrap or store in tins so they don't dry out, and they'll last for several days - if they aren't eaten by then. These amazingly aromatic little cakes are a traditional Greek Christmas sweet…called "Melomakarona". Your house will be filled with aromas of orange, honey, cinnamon, and cloves… This Melomakarona recipe creates a large batch of Honey & Spice Greek Cookies. Flavored with walnut, spices, orange and honey, these amazing cookies stay fresh up to two weeks!
Instructions to make Traditional stuffed melomakarona:
- Place all the ingredients for the dough in a bowl and then add the solids, mixing well in order to get an incorporated dough.
- Take a little bit of the dough, spread it in your hand, place 1/2 tsp of ground walnuts, seal it and then place the melomakarono in a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
- Bake the melomakarona at 180°C for 30 minutes.
- When the melomakarona are baked and have cooled, prepare the syrup.
- Boil all the ingredients together and after a couple of minutes, remove from heat, take out the cinnamon and dip the melomakarona in the syrup, using a sifter ladle to take them out. Then place them in a platter and sprinkle with the rest of the ground walnut.
Your house will be filled with aromas of orange, honey, cinnamon, and cloves… This Melomakarona recipe creates a large batch of Honey & Spice Greek Cookies. Flavored with walnut, spices, orange and honey, these amazing cookies stay fresh up to two weeks! Melomakarona are traditional Greek Christmas spiced cookies that are moist, syrupy and extremely flavoursome. They are prepared in Greek households over the Festive Season and as they are. Melomakarona - my favourite - translates as 'honey macaroons' but in reality they are little cookies made with olive oil and lots of Christmas spices which are then soaked in honey syrup and topped.
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