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Melomakarona (Christmas honey cookies)

Name: Melomakarona (Christmas honey cookies)
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 700 g flour; 200 ml orange juice; 150 g sugar; 300 g honey; 150 g walnuts; 2 tsp cinnamon; 1/2 tsp cloves; 1 tsp baking soda; 100 g semolina; 1 shot ouzo

⏱ 70 minMedium🇬🇷 Greece30 servingsLentenKid-friendly

Ingredients

flour700 g
orange juice200 ml
sugar150 g
honey300 g
walnuts150 g

Optional

cinnamon2 tsp
cloves1/2 tsp
baking soda1 tsp
semolina100 g
ouzo1 shot

Assumed: salt, pepper, oil, water.

Method

Mix 250 ml oil, juice, 50 g sugar, cinnamon, cloves and baking soda dissolved in the juice.
Gradually add flour (and semolina) until a soft dough forms — don't overwork it.
Shape oval cookies and bake at 180°C for 25 min.
Syrup: honey, 100 g sugar, 1 cup water, boil 5 min. Dip the COOLED cookies in the hot syrup, sprinkle with walnuts.

Tip: Cool cookies into hot syrup (or the reverse) — never both hot, or they go mushy.

Nutrition per serving (estimate)

240kcal

3 gprotein

11 gfat

32 gcarbs

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