Luxury Eid Barazek Cookies
This recipe is for luxurious Syrian Eid barazek cookies, made with flour, ghee, sugar, water, yeast, and a pinch of salt, then coated in sesame. Honey, thick sugar syrup, or date molasses is used with crushed Aleppo pistachios. There are no clear steps because the video is musical and contains no useful spoken instructions.
Syrian-style sesame and pistachio cookies often served for Eid.
Like crisp nutty tea cookies with sesame seeds.
These cookies are usually shaped flat and baked until golden and crisp.
Ingredients
- 500 g (5 cups) Zero flour or all-purpose flour
- 250 g (2 cups minus ¼ cup) Ghee
- 100 g (1 cup) to 150 g (1½ cups), according to preference Sugar
- 100 ml (½ cup) Water
- 5 g (½ packet) Yeast
- a pinch Pinch of salt
- 500 g Sesame seeds
- 2 tablespoons Honey, thick sugar syrup, or date molasses
- 2 tablespoons Sugar
- 100 g Crushed Aleppo pistachios