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Finally, spread the melomakarona out on a baking tray, with the sealed end at the bottom. Poke the top a little using a fork. Great recipe for Traditional stuffed melomakarona.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuffed melomakarona using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed melomakarona:
- Get For the filling
- Take 200 g coarsely cut walnuts
- Take 1 tbsp cinnamon
- Prepare For the melomakarona
- Get 7 cups (about 1 kg) cake flour, sifted
- Make ready 2 cups vegetable oil
- Take 3/4 cup sugar
- Get 3/4 cup orange juice
- Take 2 oranges (zest)
- Make ready 1/2 cup brandy
- Make ready 1 tbsp cinnamon and clove powder (mixed)
- Prepare 1 tbsp baking soda
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get For the syrup
- Prepare 2 cups honey
- Prepare 2 cups water
- Get 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1/2 lemon (juice)
Although the name is hard to pronounce, melomakarona are not very hard to make—and they're delicious. Also known as finikia, these are traditionally enjoyed during the Christmas and New Year's holiday, but you can certainly bake them year-round. In a saucepan, combine sugar, water and honey; bring to a boil. Melomakarona is probably the most iconic Greek Christmas cookies.
Instructions to make Stuffed melomakarona:
- Place the oil, the sugar, the cinnamon and the cloves in a bowl and whisk until the sugar partially dissolves. Dissolve the baking soda in the juice (over the bowl, because it will foam and pour over the tip of the cup) and add it to the ingredients together with the brandy and the zest.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder and little by little add it to the liquids, while whisking. When the dough starts to get firm, work it softly by hand, not too long, because kneading stiffens and hardens the melomakarona. Add the flour little by little and make sure that the dough is soft, fluffy and oily. Not FIRM!
- Take a piece of dough, form it into a ball, press it in your palms so that you flatten it. Add a little filling and seal it. Press it once more to flatten it.
- Finally, spread the melomakarona out on a baking tray, with the sealed end at the bottom. Poke the top a little using a fork. Bake at 170οC using the fan, in the middle rack and in a thoroughly preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until they are golden brown. Let them cool well and then place them tightly in a large baking tray (like the ones that come with the oven) so that there is no empty space between them.
- Place all the ingredients for the syrup into a pot and from the time it starts boiling, simmer for 6-7 minutes skimming off the foam. Pour hot syrup over the cold melomakarona leaving them for 4-5 minutes then turn them upside down.Then remove them and place them in a platter, sprinkling with finely chopped walnuts.
Soaked in honey syrup, topped with walnuts, they are an authentic Greek delicacy. You can also mix olive oil with vegetable oil for the dough. Many cooks find that if you omit the vegetable oil, your melomakarona might turn out too dark in the oven. Check their moisture and be very careful towards the end as they might get slightly burnt bottoms. The shape on the "melomakarona" can be done by using a fork to create holes all over it so this does not really require flattening if that makes sense.
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