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Melomakarona (Greek Christmas Cookies)

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Hello everyone!!  I hope all is well and you are all getting ready for Christmas. 🙂  I was not able to post last week because I had to return to Greece for a few days to take care of things.  (I will respond to the lovely comments that were left as soon as I can)  I did make time after I was done with business to catch up with my friends and relatives. 🙂   It was so nice to see them before the holidays because we rarely get a chance to go back to Greece during the holidays.  

We returned late Saturday night and now my mom is here visiting for the holidays, and as tradition goes we made the traditional Greek Christmas Cookies otherwise known as Melomakarona for this evening’s Christmas Eve dinner table.  Cookies that are dripping with the delicious based honey syrup, if your up for a challenge try out these cookies and let me know what you think.  

I would like to wish everyone from the bottom my heart a very Joyful, Healthy, Merry Christmas!! 

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MELOMAKARONA (GREEK CHRISTMAS COOKIES)

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilo All Purpose Flour
  • 1/2 cup Semolina
  • 100 grams Sugar
  • 1/2 litre Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil
  • 200 ml fresh Orange Juice
  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg Optional
  • 1/4 teaspoon grated Clove
  • 2 grated Orange Peels
  • Syrup:
  • 500 grams Sugar
  • 500 ml Water
  • 200 grams Honey
  • 250 grams Walnuts chopped

Instructions
 

  • In a large bowl add all the ingredients except for the flour. Once all is combined add in the flour a little at a time and knead all the ingredients until it has become one mass.
  • Take a small piece of dough at a time and start to knead in your hands and shaping it in the form of an egg. Place each Melomakarano into a large baking pan and bake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
  • In a large sauce pan add in the ingredients for the syrup and boil for about 15 minutes and until thickened.
  • When the cookies have baked pour the hot syrup over them and top with the chopped Walnuts.

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece.My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural.In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it.Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits.So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes.Sophie

24 Comments

  1. Sumit Jaitely
    December 24, 2018 at 1:46 pm  ·  Reply

    Recipe looks real awesome & soulful. I hope you will very soon visit my blog amazingshining.com which is about tech travel food

  2. Anneberly
    December 24, 2018 at 6:05 pm  ·  Reply

    Happy healthy, Merry Christmas to you.

  3. Megala
    December 25, 2018 at 11:10 am  ·  Reply

    Wow! These look yummilicious! Merry Christmas to you & your family!

  4. Lisa@LismorePaper
    December 26, 2018 at 2:48 am  ·  Reply

    These look wonderful!! Merry Christmas!!

  5. calmkate
    December 27, 2018 at 8:10 am  ·  Reply

    Yummy, hope you had a good Christmas and that the new year brings all you could wish 🙂

  6. a little Swiss, a little Canadian
    December 30, 2018 at 1:13 am  ·  Reply

    So delicious! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!❤

  7. dtills
    January 5, 2019 at 1:16 am  ·  Reply

    Sorry I am so late getting to this Sophie💕 These look wonderful and I am so glad you had a wonderful Christmas time!

    • foodzesty
      January 7, 2019 at 12:26 pm  ·  Reply

      No worries Dee heheheh Thanks so much…we do so much chatting on IG it’s the same thing. 🙂 Huge hugs…I hope the weather is better in AZ

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