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Pascale’s Kitchen: Tantalizing coconut treats -

Coconut and almond cookie cigars

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By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN, Jerusalem Post,  MARCH 24, 2022

https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/article-702212

Coconut and almond cookie cigars (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUB

This recipe is for cigar cookies, which hail from Moroccan cuisine. Filled with hazelnuts and almonds (and coconut, of course, if you so desire), the dough is dipped in syrup, then covered with coconut flakes.

Coconut and almond cookie cigars

Makes 32 cookies.

Ingredients 

Dough:

• 1 cup oil
• 1 cup water or soda water
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• Zest from 1 lemon
• 2 ½ - 3 cups flour, sifted

To sprinkle on the dough:

• ½ cup flour mixed with 1 packet of baking powder

Syrup:

• ½ kg. sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• Juice from 1 lemon
• 2 drops of rose water

Filling: 

• ¾ cup finely ground almonds
• ¾ cup ground walnuts
• ¾ cup ground peanuts
• 2 drops almond extract
• ½ cup powdered sugar

For sealing:

• 1 egg yolk

Topping:

• 1 cup coconut flakes

Directions

To prepare the dough, add the oil, water, vanilla sugar and lemon zest to a bowl and mix. Gradually add the flour while mixing. Mix the dough well and then let it rest for 15 minutes.

In a separate bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder. Separate the dough into 2 sections and roll each one out until it’s 2 mm thick. Sprinkle the flour/baking powder mixture on both and roll them up. Cut each log into 16 pieces that are 2 cm. wide, so that you have 32 pieces.

To prepare the syrup, place the ingredients in a pot and heat over a medium flame for 30 minutes until it has thickened.

To prepare the filling, add the almonds, walnuts and coconut to a bowl. Add the almond extract and powdered sugar and mix well. Add ½ cup of the syrup and mix well.

Flour your work surface and then roll out each of the 32 pieces into a thin sheet. Place a spoonful of filling on the edge of the dough closest to you, then roll it up into the shape of a cigar. Brush the ends with the egg yolk, then roll them out so that each end is sharp.

Heat the oil in a pan and fry the cigars until they turn golden brown. Remove and let them cool on paper towels.

Dip the cigars in the syrup that is still being heated over a flame and let them sit for a minute or two. Then roll them in coconut flakes, or just dip the ends in the coconut.

Level of difficulty: Medium-hard.  Time: 2 hours.

Enjoy

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