llᐈ Ghriba Spectacular Almond Cookies
Looking for an easy, quick and profitable recipe? Then you have come to the right place, today I want to teach you how to make some very simple ones, with all the splendor and flavor of the Maghreb, they are the Ghriba
Yields:
25 Servings
Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Cooking time:
15 minutes
Overall time:
1 hour 45 minutes
There is nothing in life that satisfies me more than sharing my grandmother's recipe for Ghriba with all of you, so wash your hands very well and let's have fun
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In a large container, place all the dry ingredients: previously mashed almonds, sesame seeds, yeast, flour, sugar and salt; and integrate everything very well, cover with kitchen plastic and take the dough to the refrigerator for an hour.
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Melt the butter and add it to the oil, taking care that the result is liquid and warm.
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After an hour, take the dough out of the fridge and roll it up a bit in order to remove the cold a bit and add the liquid obtained from the butter and oil, knead until everything is integrated.
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Next, weigh the dough and divide it into portions of 20 to 30 grams or the size you want your cookies.
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Grease a tray or place parchment paper and place the balls, slightly flattened, keeping a centimeter between each one. Bake at a temperature of 180° for approximately 15 minutes or until you notice that they have turned a little golden on their upper layer.
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Allow it to cool down and before serving, sprinkle the cinnamon and the snack is ready.
La Ghriba, are delicious cookies from the Middle East, which cannot be missing in any house, at the time of the closing of the "Eid el fitr" festivities, or better known as the celebration of the closing of the fast, where all the people islan, dresses up to end its famous and heartfelt Ramadan.
The "Eid el fitr", is a time of joy, where all the houses meet and through a succulent breakfast, various and different dishes are presented, among which are: Hummus, Tajín, Harira, bride fingers, semen baghrir and Ghriba cookies, preparation of which we are going to be talking about today; saucers, symbolizing the end of a long fast.
It is also important to note that this practice is so significant for the islanders and especially for the little ones, because it is a day of receiving gifts, exchanging coins and even wearing new clothes, in short, it is something like the 24th of December any.
Going back to the subject of the Ghriba Arabic cookie, I can tell you that it is a very practical and easy preparation to make with very few ingredients, a characteristic that stands out in most Middle Eastern recipes, but with an incomparable flavor that delights the palate of all your guests.
What are the Ingredients of Ghriba Almond Cookies?
Basically, they are made with three irreplaceable platform ingredients such as: flour, butter or oil, sugar and of course the protagonist of the cookies, "the almonds”, which, combined with sesame seeds and cinnamon, will result in delicious biscuits, worthy of a gala snack or why not a final breakfast.
At present, some variations of this original recipe have been made, substituting the almonds for some other dried fruit, being the preferred ones; walnuts, peanuts (groundnuts or peanuts) or coconut. But it is not surprising to see versions with dates and figs.
Thus, as the type of flour, where it perfectly combines very well with chickpea flour, as they do in Tunisia, oatmeal, rice, among others and the Moroccan special Ghoriba Bahla.
Ghriba Almond Cookie Recipe
The sweet Ghriba biscuit is the result of the perfect combination of each and every one of the ingredients mentioned above, achieving a soft, flexible and non-sticky dough, and then allowing it a leavening time.
Where after reaching that it has doubled its initial size, proceed to make balls of regular size and of the same proportions, and then flatten them approximately 1 cm, to give it that particular cookie shape.
To get them to have the same proportions, I advise you to use a kitchen weight, so you can easily divide them into equal portions
And without doing anything else to do, it only remains to place them on a tray and take them to the oven, for an approximate time of 15 to 20 minutes.
These delicious cookies, it is known for sure that they are ready, when we observe that they crack in their upper layer
These Ghriba Almond Cookies can optionally be placed with a chocolate coating, preferably fruit jams, grated coconut and countless nuts, enhancing their flavor and, ultimately, achieving truly surprising results.
If you have found this recipe for Ghriba Spectacular Almond Cookies very appetizing, do not miss our other preparations, they are really wonderful.
Moroccan cuisine is one of the Arab kitchens rich in delicious and delicious dishes. Varieties of the Moroccan table is diverse and attracts you to eat it always. Also, Moroccan cuisine is one of the international cuisines and is famous among many tourists who visit Morocco and fall in love with Moroccan food. This is because Moroccan cuisine has been mixed for years with many other cultures, so we find it varied between Berber, French, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern.
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