{"id":7485,"date":"2022-12-13T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesandbox.eu\/de\/2016\/10\/26\/melomakarona-greek-traditional-christmas-cookies\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:38:12","slug":"melomakarona-greek-traditional-christmas-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omilo.com\/de\/melomakarona-greek-traditional-christmas-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Traditional Christmas Cookies – Melomakarona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greek Traditional Christmas Cookies, are very popular and baked at most households in Greece.
\nDuring the month of December Greeks are looking forward to buy, bake, eat or treat the typical Christmas sweets.
\nOne of the typical Christmas cookies you can find in every bakery, patisserie or household, are the \u201cmelomakarona\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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What is a melomakarono ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The melomakarono (Greek: \u03bc\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03ba\u03ac\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf plural: \u03bc\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03ba\u03ac\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03b1, melomakarona) is an egg-shaped Greek desert,\u00a0 like a cookie.\u00a0 Along with the „kourabies“<\/a> it is a traditional dessert prepared primarily during the Christmas holiday season.<\/p>\n

Typical ingredients of the melomakarono are flour or semolina, sugar, orange zest and\/or fresh juice, cognac (or similar beverage), cinnamon and olive oil. During rolling they are often filled with ground walnuts. After baking they are immersed for a few seconds in hot syrup made of honey and sugar dissolved in water. Finally, they are decorated with ground, as well as bigger, pieces of walnut. Dark chocolate-covered melomakarona are also a more recent variation of the traditional recipe.<\/p>\n

Melomakarona are not difficult to make and you can find many recipes on the internet as well as videos showing you how to prepare them.
\nIt is also a nice activity to do together with kids.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Omilo-team also loves those cookies. Take a look :<\/p>\n

A lot of Omilo students have baked those delicious Greek Christmas cookies with success!
\nImpress your family and\/or friends and treat them with self-made melomakarona! Good luck.<\/p>\n

A recipe to make your own melomakarona<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

TIP! Click on the button on top of the page, and read the recipe also in Greek, while listening to the Greek Audio. <\/span>
\nThat way you can improve your listening skills, and build your Greek Vocabulary<\/span>
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INGREDIENTS<\/strong>
\n2 cups oil
\n1 cup sugar
\n1 cup orange juice
\n1 cup fine semolina
\n1 kilo flour
\n1 \u00bd teaspoons baking soda
\nLemon and Orange zest
\nSimple syrup: (In a pot, mix together 1 cup each of water, honey and sugar and
\nbring to boil while stirring constantly.)
\nCrushed walnuts<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 200c<\/p>\n

1. Beat oil well with a mixer, then add the sugar, both zests, orange juice, semolina, and then, a little at a time, the flour mixed with the baking soda.
\n2. Form the dough into small shapes, as the pastries will get quite big while baking. Make sure the oven is hot before baking, otherwise the pastries will flatten. Bake for about 30 minutes until pastries are firm and golden brown.
\n3. When completely cooled, arrange in rows in a pan and pour warm syrup over them. Sprinkle with crushed walnuts.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>Find out more at\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/masaresi.com\/product\/greeklesson-bakery\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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