🇹🇳 Tunisia
Makroudh
Kairouan's pride: date-filled semolina diamonds bathed in honey — pilgrims carry them home by the kilo.
🔪 Prep: 40 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
10 people
✨ What makes it special
Coarse semolina dough, date-orange filling, fried then dipped in warm honey.
Ingredients
- 500 gcoarse semolina
- 150 mloil or melted smen
- 300 gdate paste
- 1 tspcinnamon and orange zest
- 300 ghoney
- to tasteoil for frying
Method
- 1
Moisten the semolina with oil and water into a packable dough.
- 2
Roll a rope, channel it, lay in the date paste, and close over.
- 3
Flatten slightly and cut on the bias into diamonds.
- 4
Fry until bronzed, then bathe in warm honey.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 10