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Makroudh

Name: Makroudh
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Tunisia
Ingredients: 300g Semolina flour; 200g Dates; 80ml Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 2 tbsp Orange flower water; 150g Honey; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Semolina dough filled with date paste, fried, and soaked in honey syrup — the famous sweet of Kairouan, Tunisia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Makroudh is a sweet of semolina dough filled with date paste, cut into diamonds, fried or baked, and finished in honey or syrup. It's known as a specialty of the old city of Kairouan, and for Eid and other holidays families make large batches to share with neighbors.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the eve of Eid, women gather to roll the dough and cut it into diamonds, and freshly fried makroudh are dipped one by one into a pot of syrup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Semolina flour 300g
Dates 200g
Vegetable Oil 80ml
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Orange flower water 2 tbsp
Honey 150g
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub warmed vegetable oil into the semolina and salt, add lukewarm water a little at a time to bring together, and rest 30 minutes.
Mash the pitted dates with the cinnamon and half the orange flower water into a paste.
Roll the paste into long thin ropes.
Roll the dough into a thick log, make a groove along its length, lay in the paste, and wrap to seal.
Press flat, cut into 2cm diamonds, and fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Warm the honey with the remaining orange flower water and dip the hot pastries in it.

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