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Melomakarona recipe - A delicious Greek Christmas tradition. As with most holidays in Greece, Greek Christmas also revolves around food! This means that these are these festive days of the year to make all these traditional Greek recipes, like kourabiedes, vasilopita, diples, Christopsomo and of course these amazing sweet little honey cookies, the traditional Greek melomakarona!
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have greek christmas cookies (melomakarona) using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Christmas Cookies (Melomakarona):
- Take 1 kilo All Purpose Flour
- Get 1/2 cup Semolina
- Take 100 grams Sugar
- Prepare 1/2 liter Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
- Prepare 200 ml fresh Orange Juice
- Take 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- Get 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon soda
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg (Optional)
- Get 1/4 teaspoon grated Clove
- Make ready 2 grated Orange Peels
- Make ready Syrup:
- Take 500 grams Sugar
- Get 500 ml Water
- Take 200 grams Honey
- Get 250 grams Walnuts chopped
Get the authentic recipe for this juicy, decadent and delicious Greek Christmas honey cookie. While the white pretty kourabiedes are more of a fancy type of cookie, melomakarona (pronounced melomakárona) are the dark, decadent, succulent cookies, juicy and dripping honey all over the place. In Greek culture, making melomakarona to give others is a Christmas tradition. While other families decorated sugar cookies, we made and packaged little plates of melomakarona for all of our friends and family.
Instructions to make Greek Christmas Cookies (Melomakarona):
- A) In a large bowl add all the ingredients except for the flour. Once all is combined add in the flour a little at a time and knead all the ingredients until it has become one mass.
- B) Take a small piece of dough at a time and start to knead in your hands and shaping it in the form of an egg. Place each one Melomakarano into a large baking pan and bake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
- C) In a large sauce pan add in the ingredients for the syrup and boil for about 15 minutes and until thickened.
- D) When the cookies have baked pour the hot syrup over them and top with the chopped Walnuts.
- I wanted to thank my Aunt Soula in Greece, and my mom for treating us with their delicious Christmas Cookies. 🙂 Euxaristo poli Theia Soula…na ste kala kai Kales Giortes. - - Kali Orexi!!! - - Kala Xristougenna kai Kales Giortes everyone!! - - With the recipe I am wishing everyone A very Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays to all!!! 🙂
Everyone loved our cookies and looked forward to them every year. So we liked to make sure they looked. If there was one Greek cookie that just says Christmas, melomakarona would be it. Although the name is hard to pronounce, melomakarona are not very hard to make—and they're delicious. Also known as finikia, these are traditionally enjoyed during the Christmas and New Year's holiday, but you can certainly bake them year-round.
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