Date & nigella seed rolls (Makrouta) from Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine (page 280) by Sami Tamimi

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  • Nancy402 on July 23, 2025

    These are delicious, and lean towards herbal rather than particularly sweet. I had to make my own date paste, which was not difficult. Took a different approach to assembling the cookies due to the filing being too soft to shape, and the dough a bit delicate. After some sleuthing on-line, I rolled out the dough between parchment, spread the filling thinly on top, and then rolled it into a cylinder and cut it so that the filling was like a cinnamon bun. This worked well and was almost as pretty as the photo of the actual recipe.

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