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Greek Christmas soft honey cookies / Melomakarona

Make your house smell Christmas with this traditional sweet It is the most popular Greek Christmas sweet Melomakara is a sweet, rich in vitamins, pure ingredients with perfect taste.

General information

  • Portions: 70
  • Level of difficulty: easy
  • Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

 

For the syrup

For the mixture

  • 300gr orange juice
  • 300gr seed oil
  • 200gr SYNOLO Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 50gr icing sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cloves
  • 2-3 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • zest, of 2 oranges
  • 1 kilo all-purpose flour
  • 150gr semolina

To serve
SYNOLO Thyme Honey
• walnuts

Directions

For the syrup

  • Boil all of the ingredients for the syrup, apart from SYNOLO Thyme Honey, until sugar melts. Remove from heat. Add the SYNOLO Thyme Honey and mix .
  • You can prepare the syrup from the day before because we want the syrup to be cold


For the cookies

  • Preheat the oven to 180* C Fan.
  • To make the cookies, you need to prepare 2 separate mixtures.
  • For the first mixture, add all of the ingredients in a large bowl. Mix, using a hand.
  • In a separate bowl, add all of the ingredients for the second mixture.
  • Mix the first and second mixture.
  • Mix by hand, very gently and for a very short time just for 1 minute.
  • Make a mold cookie dough into oval shapes, 3-4 cm in length, 30 g each. Try to keep them as similar as possible.
  • Bake for about 25 minutes, until they are crunchy and dark golden brown.
  • As soon as you remove them from the oven, put the hot cookies in the syrup for 10-15 seconds.
  • Allow them to drain.

 

To serve

Add SYNOLO Thyme Honey and walnuts

Tips

  • Use only your hands to mix all the ingredients (exept the syrup) because with this way the melomakarona will be crunchy
  • Eat one with your breakfast for more energy.

 

Products

A series of pure, authentic and high nutritional value products from Greece.  Products containing beneficial ingredients, bursting with natural, delicious flavour.

SYNOLO Extra Virgin Olive Oil

From selected mountain olive groves of Kyparissia in Pelopponese

SYNOLO Kalamata Olives

Individually handpicked from selected Greek olive groves.

SYNOLO Thyme Honey

Pure thyme honey from Mt. Taygetus, located in the southern region of the Pelopponese.

SYNOLO Sesame Bar

Traditional sesame bars made with pure Greek honey and sesame seeds.

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All high nutritional value SYNOLO products in a wooden handmade luxurious box is now available.