Kahk el Eid (Egyptian Feast Biscuits)

Name: Kahk el Eid (Egyptian Feast Biscuits)
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Egyptian
Ingredients: 600 g Plain flour; 300 g Ghee, soft but not melted; 80 g Icing sugar, for the dough; 120 ml Milk, warm; 1 tsp Instant yeast; 2 tbsp Sesame seeds, toasted and ground; 1 tsp total Ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; 1 tsp Vanilla; ½ tsp Salt; 150 g Honey, for the agameya; 120 g Walnuts or pistachios, chopped; 2 tbsp Ghee, for the agameya; 2 tbsp Plain flour, for the agameya; 150 g Icing sugar, for dusting

Short, crumbling biscuits made with a great deal of ghee and a spice mix called kahk essence, stuffed with agameya — honey, nuts and ghee cooked to a fudge — and buried under icing sugar. Made in enormous batches for Eid al-Fitr, and at Christmas and Easter too. Date-filled ones are thought to be where the Levant's maamoul came from.

Источник

Автор рецепта Egyptian home kitchens · 🏺 Традиционное · Everyday Egyptian cooking — the fava beans, bread, greens and slow tomato pots that fill tables from Cairo apartments to Delta villages.

Egypt · the biscuit of the feast — An ownerless traditional sweet, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms kahk, also kahk el Eid, as a sweet shortbread biscuit eaten in Egypt primarily to celebrate festive occasions such as Eid al-Fitr as well as during Christmas and Easter, covered with powdered sugar and stuffed with ʿagameya — a mixture of honey, nuts and ghee — or lokum, walnuts, pistachios or dates, or served plain, and records that date-filled kahk are believed to be the origin of maamoul, the similar biscuit eaten in the Levant during Eid. The rubbing method, the dust-cold rule, timings and quantities are this book's own.

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Приготовление

Agameya: cook the flour in the 2 tablespoons of ghee 3 minutes until sandy, add the honey and boil 4 minutes until it thickens, then stir in the nuts. Cool until firm enough to roll into small balls.
Rub the soft ghee into the flour with your fingertips for a full 5 minutes, until it looks like wet sand and holds together when squeezed.
💡 Five minutes of rubbing, and ghee that is soft rather than melted. This is what makes kahk collapse in the mouth; melted ghee makes a dough that bakes hard.
Add the icing sugar, sesame, spices, salt and vanilla, then the milk with the yeast dissolved in it. Bring together without kneading. Rest 45 minutes.
Take a walnut of dough, flatten it, put an agameya ball in the middle, close it and roll smooth. Press the top with a kahk stamp or the tines of a fork.
Bake at 170 °C for 18–20 minutes. They should stay pale — colour means overbaked.
Cool completely on the tray, then bury in icing sugar. Do not dust them warm.

💡 Советы

Dust cold, always. Sugar on a warm biscuit melts into a wet glaze and you lose the snowdrift look entirely.
Lokum, dates, walnuts or pistachios fill the same shell, and plenty of households make them plain.