DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Date Maamoul
Also known as: معمول بالتمر
Moulded semolina cookies enclosing spiced date paste.
About Date Maamoul
Lurpak’s date maamoul follows the semolina style of the filled cookie, combining coarse and fine semolina around a spiced date paste. The dough rests overnight and takes its patterned shape from a wooden maamoul mould.
Butter and powdered milk enrich the semolina. Mahlab, rose water and blossom water supply the aromatic dough character, while cinnamon and anise flavour the soft dates.
The baked cookies have a golden exterior around the enclosed filling. A light coating of icing sugar completes the moulded pieces after cooling.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Date Maamoul
Lurpak’s moulded semolina-and-date maamoul.
- Coarse semolinaBase
- Fine semolinaBase
- Granulated sugarSweetener
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- Ground mahlabAromatic
- Powdered milkBase
- WaterLiquid
- Dry yeastBinderIngredient page not linked
- Rose waterAromatic
- Blossom waterAromaticIngredient page not linked
- Soft datesFilling
- Ground cinnamonSeasoning
- Ground aniseSeasoning
- Icing sugarFinish
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Coarse semolina: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Broader semolina identity; coarse grade explicit, ordinary wheat semolina.
- Fine semolina: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Broader semolina identity; fine grade explicit, distinct source allocation.
- Granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Card granulated sugar and method caster wording retained as source granulated branch.
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Dough and explicit tray greasing allocations consolidated.
- Ground mahlab: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Cherry-kernel spice, not an invented almond ingredient.
- Powdered milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit yeast-dissolving water.
- Dry yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Rose water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Blossom water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Flower species unprovided; not forced to orange blossom.
- Soft dates: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Dates deseeded and made into paste within recipe.
- Ground cinnamon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground anise: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader anise identity; ground form.
- Icing sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Full product/starch formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Saudi ArabiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Middle Eastern Cuisine
- Najdi CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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