Claudia Roden’s M’Hencha

Moroccan Almond Snake

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    30

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Feast of Christmas: Origins, Traditions and Recipes

By Paul Levy

Published 1992

  • About

Originally this would have been made with the Moroccan pancake pastry called ouarka, but bought filo pastry is just fine.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg (3 lb) ground almonds
  • 1 kg (2

Method

Make the filling simply by mixing the ground almonds, sugar and cinnamon with your fingers and adding orange-flower water until the mixture feels like moist sand; work into a paste, using your hands. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F, gas mark 4).

Keep the sheets of filo stacked an