Algerian Cuisine
Ingredients:
- 3 cups almond flour.
- 1 cup grated coconut.
- 3 cups icing sugar.
- 2 egg whites.
- 2 tbsp butter.
-¾ tsp vanilla powder.
- Drubs from different fruits extract.
- 2 tbsp blossom water.
- ¾ cup of water.
- Different food colors.
- 2 tbsp of sugar.
Directions:
- In a large bowl, combine the almond flour, sugar, coconut and vanilla and mixing well.
- Melted butter in a small saucepan adds it to the flour mixture, and mixture it by fingers to until they becomes small granules of dough.
- Add egg white to the mixture and knead by hand until flour disappears.
- Add blossom water into the water and mixt it well together, then add mixture gradually to the dough and knead well by hand until the dough becomes smooth.
- Increase amount of water if the dough is still dry.
- divide dough into a number of small vessels.
- Add a few drubs from each color and fruit extract to the dough to make the fruit desired, like orange color and orange extract to make the shape of orange or red color and strawberry extract to make the shape of strawberry.
- Continue kneading by hand to blend color with the dough, and then leave the dough for 15 minutes.
- shape each dough into small balls, and then shape it as a fruit, like pears or clementine or apricots or peaches or strawberry…
- to make a wide pores such as in Clementine or tangerine peel, you can lightly fork teeth stitches on the surface of the dough ball Orange to give the effect of pores.
- Coloring desserts or even color effects that simulate real fruit, by mixing blossom water with desired color, and then use a small brush to color candy or a score or shades.
- Place grains of cloves at the top of the dough in the position of the twigs as in Pear or Tangerine or Clementine.
- soak the Strawberry's dough balls in sugar coarse to make effect solid top.
- Place the almond dough's fruit in a presentation dish or in a bowl made it from chocolate.