The filling inside the ma’amoul is what breathes life into it. The outer soft and delicate texture of the cookie combined with the crunchy, nutty, sweet and fragrant filling inside is utter bliss and so sensational! I love the fillings with nuts – be they almonds or walnuts or pistachios or mixed nuts.
As for the fillings with dates, I would recommend using finely chopped dates or home made date paste, made with good quality dates instead of the store bought one which is mostly stale and also gritty. One more important ingredient is the orange blossom water which enhances the taste of the ma’amoul with its fragrance. Some use rose water, but I prefer to use orange blossom water as its fragrance is so appealing. Using honey and icing sugar with the nuts gives the filling a crunchy texture.
Ingredients:
Nut filling:
1 cup Nuts (pistachios or almonds or walnuts or mixed nuts)
1/4 cup icing sugar
2 tbs honey
1 tbs orange blossom water
Date filling:
1 cup dates chopped or 1 cup date paste
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom
1 tbs orange blossom water
Instructions:
1. Put the nuts in a zip lock bag. Take a pestle or a hammer and pound them coarsely.
2. Transfer them to a bowl. Add a major portion of the icing sugar, saving just a little to dust later.
3. Add orange blossom water. Mix well with a fork.
4. Drizzle the honey and mix well again.
5. Dust a little more icing sugar from what you saved earlier.
6. Make small rounds of them and keep them ready for stuffing the ma’amouls.
7. For the dates filling, chop finely or grind the dates or use good quality dates paste. Add the cinnamon, cardamom and orange blossom water, mix well and use this for stuffing the maamouls.
8. You can make different variations using chocolate chips, sweetened dried coconut etc and make different fillings with pistachios, walnuts, almonds or with a combination of all nuts together. You can also be creative and do something out of the box using dried apricots, figs or plums or any other dried fruit. In the image below is the filling with chopped walnuts, dates, chocolate chips and orange blossom water. You could make your own combinations in this way. For the complete ma’amoul recipe please click here
Recipe
Ma'amoul Fillings
Ingredients
Nut filling:
- 1 cup Nuts pistachios or almonds or walnuts or mixed nuts
- 1/4 cup icing sugar
- 2 tbs honey
- 1 tbs orange blossom water
Date filling:
- 1 cup dates chopped or 1 cup date paste
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp cardamom
- 1 tbs orange blossom water
Instructions
- Put the nuts in a zip lock bag. Take a pestle or a hammer and pound them coarsely.
- Transfer them to a bowl. Add a major portion of the icing sugar, saving just a little to dust later.
- Add orange blossom water. Mix well with a fork.
- Drizzle the honey and mix well again.
- Dust a little more icing sugar from what you saved earlier.
- Make small rounds of them and keep them ready for stuffing the maamouls.
- For the dates filling, chop finely or grind the dates or use good quality dates paste. Add the cinnamon, cardamom and orange blossom water, mix well and use this for stuffing the maamouls.
- You can make different variations using chocolate chips, sweetened dried coconut etc and make different fillings with pistachios, walnuts, almonds or with a combination of all nuts together. You can also be creative and do something out of the box using dried apricots, figs or plums or any other dried fruit. For the complete maamoul recipe please click here
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