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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. Melomakarona are soft, oval-shaped Greek cookies scented with orange and cinnamon, drenched in honey syrup and covered with crushed walnuts. Melomakarona - Greek honey cookies are a delicious Christmas dessert.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:
- Prepare For the syrup
- Prepare 750 gr white sugar
- Get 450 gr tap water
- Take 250 gr honey (I use greek aromatic thyme honey)
- Prepare 1 tbs corn starch syrup
- Take 1 orange sliced in thin slices
- Make ready 1 cinnamon stic
- Prepare 2-3 clove buds
- Make ready For the dough
- Get 770 gr all purpose flour
- Make ready 200 gr semolina
- Make ready 335 gr oil (either extra virgin olive oil or a mixture of olive oil and sunflower oil in equal parts, if you do not have extra virgin olive oil a combination of the two is suggested)
- Get 15 gr bicarbonate ammonia (or equal amount of baking powder)
- Get 140 gr white sugar
- Prepare 45 gr honey
- Get 240 gr freshly squeezed orange juice
- Prepare 10 gr ground cinnamon
- Make ready 5 gr ground clove
- Take 1 orange the zest
- Take For decorating
- Prepare 150 gr Ground walnuts
The melomakarona recipe is an oil-based one that still somehow yields a fluffy and almost cake-like cookie with intense flavors. Greek traditional Christmas cookies with crunchy-soft texture dipped in honey and topped with walnuts and cloves!!! Still, these traditional goodies are thought to be derived from the ancient and medieval "makaria", which were eaten during funerals. Melomakarona are a classic Greek cookie, with a gently spiced flavor in the dough and finished by dipping them in honey syrup (why they're often called honey cookies).
Instructions to make Christmas cookies dipped in honey, aka melomakarona:
- We need to prepare the syrup the day before because it needs to be cold. In a pot we add the water, the sugar, the orange cut in thin slices, the corn starch syrup, the cinnamon stick and cloves.
- We bring to the boil without stirring and keep boiling over medium heat for 5 min. We remove the pot from the fire and add the honey. We stir until the honey dissolves and we let it cool down completely.
- The next day we prepare the dough. Preheat the oven over 180oC. Add the flour and semolina in a large mixing bowl create a space in the middle and set aside.
- Add the oil, orange juice and zest, honey, sugar, ground cinnamon and ground clove in a large mixing bowl and stir rapidly until sugar dissolves, it might take 4 min.
- Add the bicarbonate ammonia, or baking powder to the liquids and stir in rapidly, until the liquids change colour (step photo 3).
- Pour the liquids to the flour, semolina mixture in the space that you have created and start incorporating the dry ingredients gently, using your fingertips.
- DO NOT overwork your dough and DO NOT add any more flour. Once the dry ingredients absorb the liquid STOP everything.
- Take a small portion of dough (the size of walnut will do just fine - because they rise will baking) and shape them like little sausages will rolling as little as possible (you can do that with ;only 3 movements). Place on a baking tray (you can line some baking paper, but they do not stick promise, but just to be sure). With a fork make small holes on the surface pressing lightly. Bake to a preheat oven over 180oC for 20-30 min. depending on your oven. After 20 min check if the are ready.
- When ready, as they are hot from the oven put them in the syrup making sure that they are dipped in completely count to ten and take them out. Place them on a strainer so the excess syrup can drip. (Make sure before reusing the baking try to add some more dough that it is completely cool, if you only have one cool it down under the tap and dry thoroughly).
- Place them on a nice platter, sprinkle with the ground walnuts and enjoy. Merry Christmas from Greece.
Still, these traditional goodies are thought to be derived from the ancient and medieval "makaria", which were eaten during funerals. Melomakarona are a classic Greek cookie, with a gently spiced flavor in the dough and finished by dipping them in honey syrup (why they're often called honey cookies). All combined, it makes these some tasty bites! This post may contain affiliate links, where we earn from qualifying purchases. See more details in the policy page.
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