Monday, December 21, 2009

"Live" Greek Christmas patisserie

As promised yesterday I am posting below a clip from one of our favorite TV shows. These clips show how to make a traditional Greek sweet for Christmas, melomakarona.
The directions are very straight forward and better shown live, so I am only posting here the ingredients.

Click here to view.

For the dough

 400 gr. orange juice

 530 gr. olive oil (you may partly substitute with sun flower oil)

 1200 gr all purpose flour

 30 gr. confestionner's sugar

 ½ teaspoon cooking soda

 ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

 1/6 teaspoon  clove

 50 gr sheep's butter, melted. γρ.

For the Syrup:
 500 gr water

 700 gr. sugar

 1 orange cut in half

 2 cinnamon sticks

 100 gr honey

To decorate

walnuts (or if you are allergic to walnuts, almonds, thinly cut)

 honey

 For the filling

 200 gr dried fruit (figs, apricots, sultanas)
~100 gr. honey

~220 gr. seasami seeds
~1 lemon peel grated

I may even be tempted to make some myself...

P.S. there are plenty more recipes in the sidebar. If you are interested in making another one, let me know in the comments and I shall publish the English translation here. Emjoy!

1 comment:

P. said...

It looks good.
Merry Christmas.
Alfazema