🇱🇧 Lebanon
Maamoul
In Lebanon maamoul crosses every threshold at Easter and Eid alike — same cookie, shared joy.
🔪 Prep: 80 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
12 people
✨ What makes it special
Often blends semolina with flour for a lighter crumb; Easter batches sit beside date-filled kaak.
Ingredients
- 500 gsemolina
- 200 gflour
- 300 gbutter or ghee
- 2 tbsporange blossom water
- 300 gdate paste
- 200 gwalnuts with sugar
Method
- 1
Prepare the rested semolina-butter dough.
- 2
Shape and fill with dates or walnuts.
- 3
Press in molds and bake pale gold.
- 4
Cool completely before dusting with sugar.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 12