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Great recipe for Melomakarona by Evdokia. Very tasty, crunchy and at the same time, fluffy, traditional melomakarona (Christmas walnut and honey cookies). Recipe by πατσιλινάκου Melomakarona by Evdokia.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook melomakarona by evdokia using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Melomakarona by Evdokia:
- Make ready 1 st mixture
- Prepare 1200 g cake flour
- Take 1 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp orange zest
- Make ready 2 nd mixture
- Take 500 g olive oil
- Take 250 g sugar
- Get 2/3 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1/2 cup brandy or sour cherry liqueur, homemade
- Get Syrup
- Take 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 2 cups honey
- Prepare lemon peel
- Take stick cinnamon
- Prepare ground walnut for sprinkling
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. These are a coarse-grained cookie soaked in a honey syrup (the semolina achieves this), popular throughout Greece during the Christmas Holidays. They are wonderful and are THE recipe that makes my house smell like Christmas - orange peel and cloves and cinnamon.
Steps to make Melomakarona by Evdokia:
- Mix all the ingredients of the first mixture.
- Using another bowl, beat the olive oil for at least 10 minutes and add the rest of the ingredients without interrupting the beating.
- After the second mixture is thoroughly incorporated, add the first mixture to it and knead by hand.
- The dough is successful if it unsticks from your hands.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- For each melomalarono use 50 g of dough, form a ball and then press it to make an elliptical shape.
- Place the melomakarona on an oiled baking sheet (24 in each sheet) and poke them lengthwise with a fork.
- Place the baking sheet on the second oven rack from the top and bake for 20 minutes. Take care to follow the baking time because the melomakarona can burn easily!
- When you are finished with baking (don't place two baking sheets in the oven at the same time) prepare the syrup using a deep pot
- Place all the ingredients in the pot and let them boil for three minutes (beginning the count from the moment it starts boiling) without removing the foam.
- Remove the pot from heat and dip the melomakarona in the syrup for 1/2 a minute.
- Arrange them in a deep platter and sprinkle them with ground walnut.
The most unbelievable perfume wafts through the house for a couple of days after baking! Very tasty, crunchy and at the same time, fluffy, traditional melomakarona (Christmas walnut and honey cookies). 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. Whatever you decide to do just be consistent and make sure that every piece is the same with the others since this will be important when they are baked. Greece-Maria Mavromati Before Christmas housewifes make special sweets like melomakarona by using semolina and kourabiedes by using powered sugar.
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