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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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook melomakarona by evdokia using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Melomakarona by Evdokia:
- Get 1 st mixture
- Get 1200 g cake flour
- Get 1 tsp ground cloves
- Take 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp orange zest
- Prepare 2 nd mixture
- Make ready 500 g olive oil
- Get 250 g sugar
- Make ready 2/3 cup orange juice
- Take 1/2 cup brandy or sour cherry liqueur, homemade
- Make ready Syrup
- Get 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 2 cups honey
- Prepare lemon peel
- Get stick cinnamon
- Get ground walnut for sprinkling
It's just not the holidays without them. —Paris Paraskeva, San Francisco, California Aki's Greek Christmas Honey Cookies- Melomakarona. Diet based on cereals, pulses, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits and other animal foods such as honey and eggs. Excludes foods such as milk, yoghurt, cheese and their by-products. Melomakarona (pronounced meh-loh-mah-KAH-rho-nah), are Greek honey cookies which we make during Christmas, with extra mild olive oil, flour or semolina (or both) and bathed in honey syrup.
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.
Crushed walnuts are spinkled on top after they are bathed in syrup. In some places walnuts are mixed with cinnamon and sesame seeds. Melomakarona recipe - A delicious Greek Christmas tradition. As with most holidays in Greece, Greek Christmas also revolves around food! This means that these are these festive days of the year to make all these traditional Greek recipes, like kourabiedes, vasilopita, diples, Christopsomo and of course these amazing sweet little honey cookies, the traditional Greek melomakarona!
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