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Aki's Greek Christmas Honey Cookies- Melomakarona - by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis. Wonderful aromatic, spiced cookies with honey that are like little cakes! Akis Recipes Users Recipes Akis' Diary Type to search.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have melomakarona by akis using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Melomakarona by Akis:
- Make ready 1 Mixture
- Make ready 400 ml orange juice
- Prepare 400 ml vegetable oil
- Get 180 ml olive oil
- Take 50 g icing sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp clove
- Make ready 2-3 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1/4 nutmeg
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready zest of 2 oranges
- Prepare 2 Mixture
- Get 1 kg flour
- Get 200 g fine semolina
- Get For the syrup
- Get 500 ml water
- Prepare 800 g sugar
- Make ready 150 g honey
- Prepare 1 orange cut in half
- Get 3 cinnamon sticks
- Take 3 whole cloves
After the very successful melomakarona by Akis I thought that it would be good to publish his kourabiedes as well! 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's just not the holidays without them. —Paris Paraskeva, San Francisco, California Akis' 'Melomakarona'.
Instructions to make Melomakarona by Akis:
- Boil the ingredients for the syrup 3-4 hours before you start making the melomakarona so that there is enough time for the syrup to cool.
- When it boils, remove from heat and add the honey. Let it cool.
- Mix all the ingredients for mixture 1 thoroughly using a good whisk.
- Add the ingredients of mixture 2 and mix softly for a little while, just until the flour is fully incorporated in the rest of the mix
- Form your melomakarona and make a crosshatch pattern on the top of the cookies (you can just poke them with a fork). Bake at 190°C for about 20-25 minutes until they are crispy.
- Dip the hot melomakarona into the cold syrup and leave them for 20 seconds, then strain them.
- Dilute some honey with some water. Place the melomakarona on a platter, drizzle the diluted honey over them and sprinkle with walnuts.
Now's the time to decipher exactly how much spice to add to the mixture. This Melomakarona recipe creates a large batch of Honey & Spice Greek Cookies. Flavored with walnut, spices, orange and honey, these amazing cookies stay fresh up to two weeks! While I may not have any family from Greece, these Melomakarona (Greek honey, spice and walnut cookies) will always have a special place in my heart. Melomakarona recipe - A delicious Greek Christmas tradition.
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