🇲🇦 Morocco cuisine · #14

Chebakia

Chebakia
Time120 min
Serves40
Ingredients12

Flower-shaped cookies flavoured with sesame, anise and orange blossom, fried and dipped in honey — harira's Ramadan partner.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Mix the flour with sesame and spices, add egg, butter, vinegar and orange-blossom water and knead firmly.
  2. Roll thin and cut rectangles with four slits.
  3. Thread the strips through each other to form a flower.
  4. Fry until golden brown, then plunge straight into hot honey for 5 minutes.
  5. Lift out and sprinkle with sesame.