Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates

Name: Maamoul cookies with pistachio, walnuts, and dates
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 750 g fine semolina; 500 g coarse semolina; 500 g margarine; 3/4 cup rose water; 3/4 cup blossom water; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 teaspoon yeast; icing sugar: quantity as desired; 1/2 kg nuts; 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 tablespoons Arab /sugar syrup(Ater); 1 tablespoon rose water; 1 tablespoon blossom water; 1/2 kg grinded pistachio; 2 tablespoon sugar; 2 tablespoon sugar syrup(Ater); 1 tablespoon rose water; 1 tablespoon blossom water; 1/2 kg pitted dates(smashed); 2 tablespoon butter

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Maamoul Cookies is a traditional Middle Eastern dessert renowned for its finesse, amazing taste & fresh ingredients. With its roots in the Ottoman Empire, it quickly became a favorite in Arabic countries as well as modern Turkey, Greece and Lebanon.🇱🇧

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Ingredients

750 gfine semolina
500 gcoarse semolina
500 gmargarine
3/4 cuprose water
3/4 cupblossom water
3/4 cupsugar
1 teaspoonyeast
To garnish:
icing sugar: quantity as desired
nuts fillings:
1/2 kgnuts
2 tablespoonssugar
2 tablespoonsArab /sugar syrup(Ater)
1 tablespoonrose water
1 tablespoonblossom water
pistachio filling:
1/2 kggrinded pistachio
2 tablespoonsugar
2 tablespoonsugar syrup(Ater)
1 tablespoonrose water
1 tablespoonblossom water
dates filling:
1/2 kgpitted dates(smashed)
2 tablespoonbutter

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Steps

1

In a wide pot, add semolina with margarine, work it with hands till all margarine is mixed with semolina.
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Leave semolina aside for 4 hours in a cold area or for whole night.
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Later, add yeast, sugar, rose and orange water knead all together well into a paste.
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Make from dough small balls as wlanut size, line and cover to avoid drought.
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Nuts fillings:

Preparation:
Grind roughly the nuts, add sugar, sugar syrup, flavors, mix well together, cover the pot in a cooled area for half hour.
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You may form small balls from the dough to make fillings easier.
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Pistachio filling:
Preparation:
Prepare the pistachio filling same way as walnuts filling.
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Dates filling:
Preparation:
Melt the butter without heating, and mix with smashed dates then form small balls,smaller than the dough balls.
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Maamoul preparation:
Place a piece of dough in the palm of the hand and flatted, then add around 1 tablespoon of filling to its center
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Close it then bring the edges together and close the dough on the fillings.
Place the dough in the wooden maamoul mold
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Press it gently with your fingers until it becomes even with the mold surface.
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Slam the wooden mold's edges on a non sticky surface, until the moles maamoul drop out.
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To avoid dough being stuck in the mold cover the mold with cling wrap.
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Put the mammoul cookies on a tray and bake it in an already heated oven on 180° for 1/4 hour until goldiah color.
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Keep the maamoul cool, then using a strainer sprinkle the icing sugar above the maamoul with walnuts and pistachio fillings.
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Finally, fold the maamoul using special papers or keep them in a closed container and consummed when desired.