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Desserts · Iraq

Kleicha

Biscuits of date paste and cardamom, rolled into a log and cut into slices.

◷ 85 minutes♧ 12 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓

Ingredients

For 12 servings · tick what is ready

Use the scaled ingredient list. Steps and temperatures stay unchanged; use a larger pan or dish if needed. Seasonings to taste stay to taste.

LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk and leave it ten minutes, until it foams.

02

Rub the flour with the melted ghee, mahlab, fennel, nigella and salt.

03

Add the yeast mixture and knead a soft dough, working it ten minutes.

04

Cover it and rest it an hour at room temperature.

05

Work the date paste with a spoon of ghee and the cardamom until pliable.

06

Roll the dough into a rectangle, spread the paste in a thin layer and roll it into a tight log.

07

Cut the log into centimetre slices, brush them with yolk, scatter with sesame and bake at 180 °C for twenty minutes.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.