🇲🇦 Morocco
Chebakia
Ramadan in Morocco smells of chebakia: anise-sesame dough folded to roses, fried, and drowned in honey.
🔪 Prep: 60 min🔥 Cook: 30 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
12 people
✨ What makes it special
The folded-flower shape, orange-blossom honey bath, and a final rain of sesame.
Ingredients
- 500 gflour
- 100 gtoasted sesame, ground
- 1 tspanise, cinnamon, saffron
- 2 tbsporange blossom water
- 500 ghoney
- to tasteoil for frying; sesame to finish
Method
- 1
Knead a spiced sesame dough and rest it.
- 2
Roll thin, cut slitted squares, and fold through themselves into roses.
- 3
Fry to deep gold, then soak minutes in warm honey with blossom water.
- 4
Drain and shower with sesame; serve beside harira.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 12