This record attempts to contribute a record of the many types and varieties of Mamoul available in the Middle East. A differentiation is made in the middle of the "Mamoul" which is a rounded nut filled cookie and the "Mamoul Mad" which is a flat nut filled cookie, then a record of the varieties of each type if provided.
These Middle Eastern cookies are some of the most popular desserts in the region. They are thought about very traditional desserts and they date back a few hundred years.
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Mamoul, pronounced as [ma'mul], and commonly written in different forms as in Maamoul and Mamul is a traditional Middle Eastern cookie filled with nuts and consumed all over the year but especially while special occasions and holidays. Because of its nutritious value due to its plenty in nuts, it is often offered to children as a transfer for the sugar coated cookies that are thought about to have a much lesser nutritious value.
Mamoul and baklava commonly go hand in hand, as they are both thought about traditional Arabic sweets and consumed practically in the same occasions. However, while baklava is made of fine layers of pastry dough, the old is a semolina dough cookie. Even though they both belong to different categories of Arabic and Middle Eastern sweets, they are most often sold in the same market and bakeries. Moreover, habitancy who tend to like the taste of the old also enjoy that of the latter.
Among the two types, Mamoul and Mamoul-Mad, the old is the most well known. It is the more traditional and traditional version, and most habitancy are much more used to it. Most habitancy in Arabic countries are familiar with the former, but the latter is only popular in sure countries. It is most popular in Lebanon.
The traditional version is a rounded and delicate semolina cookie filled with pistachios, walnuts, or dates. The pistachios and walnuts filled versions are also garnished with powdered sugar. It is a traditional cookie that dates back hundreds of years and has come to be popular in many countries around the world. habitancy are welcoming it because its nuts filling make it a wholesome substitute for sugar and chocolate cookies which are deemed unhealthy by most people. This Middle Eastern cookie looks very enchanting from a condition point of view.
On the other hand, "Mamoul Mad", which is Lebanese for "Flattened Cookie" consists of a pistachios, walnuts, dates, or cream filling sandwiched in the middle of layers of flattened semolina dough. Its filling is commonly denser than that of the traditional version and thus makes it sweeter and richer. Its crust is any way very delicate and tends to break easily.
In order to differentiate in the middle of the different varieties, it is traditional to mold the walnuts filled cookies in the shape of a cone, while production the dates filled cookies flatter and the pistachios filled cookies more elongated.
Mamoul has a relatively short shelf life, when compared to baklava, and thus each piece is commonly individually wrapped in order to withhold its freshness. This commonly increases its shelf life by about few months by holding the air away from it.
Mamoul - Middle Eastern Cookies
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