Name: Bahrainy Walnut & Date Pie
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: Bahrain
Ingredients: ½ cup oil or 6 tablespoons butter, diced, or ghee; 1½ cups unbleached flour; 1 teaspoon ground cardamom; ¼ teaspoon cinnamon; ½ cup oil, butter, or ghee; 1 tablespoon cold water; 1 egg; 1 cup ground walnuts; 2 tablespoons unbleached flour; ⅓ cup sugar; ¼ cup toasted sesame seeds; 2 tablespoons honey or date syrup; 3 tablespoons orange blossom water; 20-40 date halves, pitted (depending on size of dates)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

Silk Road Cooking

By Najmieh Batmanglij

Published 2000

About

Ingredients

Pie Shell

1½ cups unbleached flour
½ cup oil or 6 tablespoons

Asia
Bahrain
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat oven to 400°F.
In a food processor bowl, sift the flour and cardamom. Add the oil. Pulse until the mixture turns into a grainy dough. Add the egg and 1 tablespoon</