Sellou

Toasted flour, almond and sesame sweet eaten in Ramadan.

Ingredients

• 4 cups Flour
• 2 cups Almonds
• 1½ cups Sesame seeds
• 1½ cups Butter
• 1½ cups Powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp Cinnamon
• 1 tbsp Aniseed
• ½ tsp Salt

Method

1. Toast the flour — Bake the flour, stirring often, for 45 minutes until it turns deep golden and smells nutty — this slow toasting is the whole dish.
2. Toast the nuts — Fry the almonds until golden, then toast the sesame separately until it pops.
3. Grind — Grind most of the almonds and sesame, keeping some whole.
4. Combine — Mix everything with cinnamon, aniseed, sugar and salt.
5. Add butter — Pour in the melted butter and work it in until the mixture clumps when squeezed.
6. Sellou is ready — Press into a mound, decorate with whole almonds, and serve in small spoonfuls.

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