🇸🇾 Syria
Maamoul
Damascus maamoul is the gold standard, perfumed with mahlab and rose, molded in inherited tabi'a molds.
🔪 Prep: 90 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
12 people
✨ What makes it special
Mahlab-scented semolina, three classic fillings (date, walnut, pistachio), each with its own mold shape.
Ingredients
- 700 gfine semolina
- 300 gghee
- 1 tspmahlab, ground
- 2 tbsprose and orange blossom water
- 300 gdate paste
- 200 gwalnuts or pistachios, sugar, blossom water
- to tastepowdered sugar to finish
Method
- 1
Rub the ghee into semolina and mahlab; rest overnight.
- 2
Revive the dough with blossom waters until it holds together.
- 3
Roll the fillings: date logs, sweetened nut mixtures.
- 4
Fill balls of dough, press into molds, and knock out.
- 5
Bake until barely blond — maamoul must stay pale and tender.
- 6
Dust nut-filled ones with powdered sugar once cool.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 12