Saada’s Malateet

Name: Saada’s Malateet
Cuisine: Israel
Ingredients: 250 mls natural yoghurt; ½ teaspoon cinnamon; 170 g sugar; 200 g butter; 2 heaped teaspoons nigella seeds; 475 mls olive oil; 150 g sesame seeds; 2 heaped teaspoons yansoon; 1 kg plain white flour; 1 teaspoon salt

Yellow Biscuits

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Galilean Kitchen

By Ruth Nieman

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

1 kg plain white flour
1 teaspoon salt
475 mls

Asia
Israel
Vegetarian
Mediterranean
Cookies
Spicy

Method

place the flour, butter, olive oil, sugar, seeds & spices together in a bowl & mix, add yoghurt & stir well to bind the pastry ingredients together, rest for at least 1 hour
when pastry is well rested, roll the dough to a 5mm thickness & using a 5cm round cutter, cut out the biscuits & place each one on a baking tray, lined with greaseproof paper