Ingredients
- 500 g almonds
- 250 g ground roasted hazelnuts
- 500 g of pastilla leaves (brick)
- 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons of orange blossom water
- 200 g caster sugar
- 1.5 kg of honey
- 1 egg white
- melted butter
Preparation
A crispy oriental pastry flavored with honey and orange blossom. Some people wrongly think that oriental pastries are complicated to make… try this recipe, focus on “rolling” the cigars, this is the most important step, and you will be pleasantly surprised by the result. Good tasting, with a mint green tea!
Boil, peel, grind the almonds with the sugar to obtain a powder. Add the ground toasted hazelnuts, cinnamon, then the orange blossom water. Make sausages.
Spread the pastry sheet on a work surface then place the almonds. Roll up, as shown, coating the edges of the sheet with egg white.
Arrange the Almond and Hazelnut Cigars on a baking tray, coat with melted butter, bake at medium temperature for 20 minutes or until golden on both sides then dip directly in warm honey.
source: la-cuisine-marocaine.com
