
Ingredients:
• 6 tbsp – rose water
• 450 gms – semolina
• 75 gms – Cake Flour
• 200 gms – Butter
• One cup – icing Sugar
• For the stuffing:
• 2 tbsp – rose water
• 1 cup castor Sugar
• 450 gms – walnuts, finely chopped
Method:
- Sieve the semolina and cake flour together in a large bowl.
- Add the softened butter and some of the rose water to the bowl.
- Now rub in the butter into the flour until it makes a smooth dough.
- Work quickly and lightly with your fingertips and let it rest for 10 hours.
- During his time, rub down or knead 3 or 4 times to obtain a soft dough.
- To make the filling:
- Add the rose water, castor sugar and finely chopped walnuts in a bowl and mix well together to make the filling. Set aside.
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees C.
- To make the biscuits:
- Divide the dough into two.
- Press one half of the dough into a well-greased baking tray.
- Press the filling over the dough. Cover the filling with the remaining half of the dough.
- Alternatively, you can divide the dough into approximately 15-20 balls.
- Take one ball and make a hole in it and fill it with about 2 tbsps of the walnut filling, then close the filling over by pressing down the dough to cover the filling.
- Put the biscuits on a baking tray. Repeat till you finish all the dough.
- Put the tray in the pre-heated oven and cook for 10 minutes or until well Bake.
- They should be slightly golden but not golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle the icing sugar through a sieve directly onto the oven-hot walnut biscuits.
- Leave to cool. Sprinkle with more icing sugar, then serve.