Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, melomakarona 3. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Put the honey, sugar, cinnamon, clove, and lemon zest in a saucepan and add the water. Melomakarona is one of Greek traditional Christmas sweets that every home "must have" on Christmas table. They are cookies with orange juice and cinnamon, dipped in honey syrup and sprinkled with ground walnuts.
Melomakarona 3 is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Melomakarona 3 is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have melomakarona 3 using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Melomakarona 3:
- Prepare 2 cups oil
- Make ready 1 cup vegetable oil shortening (at room temperature)
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready zest of one orange
- Take 1/2 cup brandy
- Take 1/2 cup sugar
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Get 1 cup semolina
- Get 1 kg all purpose flour
- Prepare 1/2 tsp clove
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare For the syrup
- Prepare 3 cups sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup water
- Get 3 tbsp honey
- Get the juice of 1/2 a lemon
- Make ready 1 cinnamon stick
- Take cloves
Growing up in Cyprus, we would see this melomakarona cookie everywhere during the holidays. Every year my mother, Thelma, would make plate after plate of these all Christmas long. It must be cold by the time the cookies. To prepare this melomakarona recipe start by making the syrup first.
Steps to make Melomakarona 3:
- Boil the syrup. Place all the ingredients together, except the lemon and let them boil for 5 minutes over medium to strong heat. Then, add the lemon and leave for an additional 5 minutes. Take care because the honey makes the syrup foam and it might spill. In the end, skim off the foam.
- While the syrup boils, beat the vegetable oil shortening with the sugar for a while. Add the lukewarm sunflower oil and blend for a while longer.
- Dissolve the baking soda in the orange juice and add it quickly to the mixture, because it foams! Add the orange zest as well as the brandy.
- Add the semolina, the vanilla, clove powder and a little bit of flour together with the baking powder.
- Mix lightly, using your hand and gradually add the rest of the flour little by little until you have a soft, pliable dough.
- Form your melomakarona and place them in a buttered or oiled baking tray. If you like, poke the top lightly with a fork before you put them in the oven.
- Bake in a moderate oven until they get slightly golden brown. Set them aside for 3-4 minutes before you dip them into the syrup.
- Take a small baking tray and pour in a little of your hot syrup. Place the melomakarona in the syrup and leave them for 3-4 minutes so they absorb enough of it.
- Turn them upside down and leave them for an additional 3-4 minutes. If later, the syrup in the baking tray cools, heat it for a couple of minutes.
- Coarsely grind the walnuts and add 1 tsp of cinnamon. Arrange the melomakarona in a platter and sprinkle with a little bit of the walnuts.Best of luck.
In a pot add all the ingredients for the syrup, except the honey and bring to the boil. Stir in the honey and set aside to cool completely. Prepare the dough for the melomakarona. Form your melomakarona and place them in a buttered or oiled baking tray. If you like, poke the top lightly with a fork before you put them in the oven.
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