Egypt

Kahk

Name: Kahk
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Egyptian
Ingredients: 4 cups plus 2 tbsp maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1 1/4 cups samna or ghee melted ghee; 1/2 cup warm milk; 2 tbsp in dough rest icing sugar for dusting sugar; 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds; 1 tsp instant dry yeast; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp kahk spice or ground aniseed fennel seeds; 1/3 cup for the filling honey; a pinch salt

Melt in the mouth butter cookies, honey filled and snowed with sugar. Egypt's Eid essential.

90 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

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Grandma's waySamna dough, honey filling and a snowfall of sugar.

The original

445kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

2 gfibresame

90minutessame

Classic Egyptian kahk.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)4 cups plus 2 tbsp

Ghee1¼ cups samna or ghee, melted

Milk½ cup, warm

Sugar2 tbsp in dough, rest icing sugar for dusting

Sesame seeds1 tbsp, toasted

Instant dry yeast1 tsp

Baking powder1 tsp

Fennel seeds1 tsp kahk spice or ground aniseed

Honey⅓ cup, for the filling

Salta pinch

Method

4 steps

1Rub hot melted ghee into the flour, sesame and spice until sandy. Cool, then add yeast, baking powder, sugar and warm milk and knead briefly.
2Cook honey with a spoon each of flour and ghee to a thick filling (ajameya). Cool.
3Shape walnut sized balls, press in a little filling, close and stamp with a kahk mould or pinch patterns with tongs.
4Bake at 180 C until the bases are pale gold. Cool and dust heavily with icing sugar.

Serve it like this

Pile on a platter in a snowy heap of icing sugar and serve with tea or Turkish coffee on Eid morning.

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