Date cookies

Name: Date cookies
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2.5 cups flour; 1 cup fine semolina; 3/4 cup animal ghee; 3/4 cup olive oil(you can use olive oil only instead of the ghee); 1/4 cup icing sugar; 1/4 cup powder milk; 1/4 cup cookie spices(aniseed, fennel and mahleb); 1/4 cup roasted sesame seeds; 1 tbsp nigella seeds

Tripolitan Cuisine @cook_16360859

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Date cookies

Tripolitan Cuisine @cook_16360859

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Ingredients

2.5 cupsflour
1 cupfine semolina
3/4 cupanimal ghee
3/4 cupolive oil(you can use olive oil only instead of the ghee)
1/4 cupicing sugar
1/4 cuppowder milk
1/4 cupcookie spices(aniseed, fennel and mahleb)
1/4 cuproasted sesame seeds
1 tbspnigella seeds

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Steps

1

In a bowl add the ingredients listed above and mix them very well so the flour absorbs the oil
Leave the dough in the fridge overnight
2

To knead the dough
Mix one cup of dissolved aniseed with one cup of hot water and leave it aside so it becomes warm
3

Add one tbsp sugar with a teaspoon of yeast and let it rise
4

Knead the dough until you have a cohesive dough
5

Add a little bit of water gradually if needed
Leave it aside to rest for 1/2hr
6

3-stuffing

500g mashed date
1tbsp oil
1/4tsp mahleb
1/4tsp ground cinnamon
7

Mix all the ingredients together and divide them into small balls equal in size
Roll each ball with hands so you have small rope
8

Cookies formation
Divide the dough into equal sized ball, roll each one and stuff it with one of dough and make a circle shape with a whole in the middle
9

Line the cookies in an oven tray
Bake them in a preheated oven at 180°C in the middle shelf until the turn golden on both sides
10

Leave them aside so they cool down then serve