Middle Eastern Cookies
A ma’amoul mold older than the kitchen. A sesame ring you eat with cardamom coffee. A semolina shortbread that crumbles like sand at the lip. The cookie is generous before it is anything else.
Featured middle eastern cookies recipes
- Ma’amoul, walnut-filled — Iris · Damascus · Semolina shortbread pressed around walnut. The mold gives the wedding pattern.
- Ma’amoul, pistachio — Iris · Aleppo · Same dough, pistachio inside, a different mold. Eid morning standard.
- Graybeh, melt-on-the-tongue shortbread — Iris · Beirut · Three ingredients — clarified butter, sugar, flour. Pressed with a thumbprint.
- Ka’ak asfar, anise sesame ring — Iris · Tripoli · A turmeric-tinted dough rolled into rings, sesame-coated, baked twice for crisp.
- Barazek, pistachio sesame disc — Iris · Damascus · Sesame on one side, pistachio on the other. Crisp at the edge, chewy at center.
- Kombe, semolina almond — Iris · Antakya · A southern-Turkey semolina cookie with almond. Mahlab in the dough.
- Bride’s fingers, phyllo finger — Iris · Beirut · Phyllo rolled around walnut and sugar. Cut into fingers, syruped warm.
- Naan-e-nokhodchi, chickpea-flour clover — Iris · Tehran · A clover-cut chickpea flour cookie with rosewater. Tea-time, every house.
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