Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, traditional stuffed melomakarona. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Place all the ingredients for the dough in a bowl and then add the solids, mixing well in order to get an incorporated dough. Melomakarona is probably the most iconic Greek Christmas cookies. 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook traditional stuffed melomakarona using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional stuffed melomakarona:
- Prepare For the dough
- Take 750 g self-rising flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Get 1 packet baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Get 3 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 1 cup orange juice
- Take 1/4 cup brandy
- Get 1 tbsp ground clove and cinnamon
- Take For the syrup
- Take 2 cups water
- Take 1 1/2 cups honey
- Take 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Get For the stuffing and sprinkling
- Prepare 1 cup ground walnuts
These Greek Honey Cookies or as we call them in Greece Melomakarona, go way back in time. At first, they used to be called "Makaronia" (Ancient Greek word for dead soul pie). They were served, during medieval times in a form of a dry piece of the pie (without syrup and honey) at a dinner that followed a funeral. Beat butter in a separate bowl until light and fluffy; add sugar and mix well.
Instructions to make Traditional stuffed melomakarona:
- Place all the ingredients for the dough in a bowl and then add the solids, mixing well in order to get an incorporated dough.
- Take a little bit of the dough, spread it in your hand, place 1/2 tsp of ground walnuts, seal it and then place the melomakarono in a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
- Bake the melomakarona at 180°C for 30 minutes.
- When the melomakarona are baked and have cooled, prepare the syrup.
- Boil all the ingredients together and after a couple of minutes, remove from heat, take out the cinnamon and dip the melomakarona in the syrup, using a sifter ladle to take them out. Then place them in a platter and sprinkle with the rest of the ground walnut.
They were served, during medieval times in a form of a dry piece of the pie (without syrup and honey) at a dinner that followed a funeral. Beat butter in a separate bowl until light and fluffy; add sugar and mix well. In a large bowl combine the orange rind, orange juice, vegetable oil, honey, cognac, sugar, crushed walnuts, ground cloves, and ground cinnamon. Melomakarona (μελομακάρονα) are traditional Greek Christmas cookies, that are served during Christmas time throughout Greece. The word "melomakarona" is a combination of the two words "meli", which means honey and "makarona". "Makarona" comes from the ancient word "makaria" and means blessed.
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