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Ma'amoul

Name: Ma'amoul
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 24
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: 250g Semolina flour; 50g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 2 tbsp Sugar; 2g Dry yeast; 1 tbsp Rose water; 4 tbsp Milk; 200g (pitted) Dates; 50g Walnuts; A pinch Cinnamon powder; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 24

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Semolina dough filled with dates or walnuts and pressed in carved wooden molds — festive cookies.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ma'amoul are baked sweets essential for Eid and Easter in the Levant. Semolina and butter dough is filled with dates, walnuts, or pistachios and shaped by pressing into beautifully patterned wooden molds. Before the holidays, families gather to make them together and serve them to visiting guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the eve of Eid, women stand side by side in a Syrian kitchen pressing dough into wooden molds and lining up little patterned sweets on baking trays.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 24)

Semolina flour 250g
All-purpose flour 50g
Butter 150g
Sugar 2 tbsp
Dry yeast 2g
Rose water 1 tbsp
Milk 4 tbsp
Dates 200g (pitted)
Walnuts 50g
Cinnamon powder A pinch
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the melted butter well into the semolina and flour and leave overnight.
Add the sugar, yeast, rose water, and warm milk, bring together into a dough, and rest 30 minutes.
Knead the dates with cinnamon, mix in chopped walnuts, and roll into small balls of filling.
Divide the dough into 24, make a hollow in each, wrap around the filling, press into a wooden mold, and tap out.
Bake at 180°C for 15–20 minutes until lightly colored underneath, and dust with powdered sugar once cool.

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