🇲🇦 Morocco
Sellou / Sfouf
Made by the kilo before Ramadan and offered to new mothers all year: a spoon of sellou with milk is how Moroccan mornings recover.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 30 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
12 people
✨ What makes it special
Flour browned dry in the pan, fried almonds and toasted sesame ground in, bound with honey and smen, served heaped in a cone.
Ingredients
- 500 gflour
- 250 galmonds
- 200 gsesame seeds
- 1 tbspground anise and cinnamon
- 200 ghoney
- 150 gmelted butter or smen
- 80 gpowdered sugar
Method
- 1
Toast the flour dry in a wide pan, stirring, until tan and nutty — do not rush it.
- 2
Fry the almonds and toast the sesame; grind most, keep some whole.
- 3
Mix flour, ground nuts, spices, and sugar, then bind with warm honey and butter.
- 4
Pile into a cone, decorate with whole almonds, and serve by the spoon.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 12