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Ghoriba

Name: Ghoriba
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 20
Cuisine: Libya
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 80g Powdered sugar; 20 pods Almonds; A pinch Vanilla Extract

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 20

Difficulty ⭐

Butter-rich crumbly cookies — a Libyan festival treat.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ghoriba are cookies made across North Africa; in Libya, flour or semolina is mixed with lots of butter and powdered sugar and baked into a sweet that melts and crumbles in the mouth. They're baked in quantity for Eid and offered to guests with mint tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the morning of Eid in Libya, pale round cookies are neatly arranged on a silver tray beside small glasses of mint tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 20)

All-purpose flour 200g
Butter 150g
Powdered sugar 80g
Almonds 20 pods
Vanilla Extract A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Beat the softened butter and powdered sugar until pale.
Add the flour and vanilla and bring together by hand.
Roll into small balls, arrange on a baking sheet, and press an almond into the center of each.
Bake at 160°C for 15 minutes without letting them color.
Cool completely on the sheet before moving.

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