Sesame Date Fingers (Kleicha)
This recipe is a baked sweet pastry in the style of sesame fingers/kleicha, made with a dough of flour, ghee, sugar, and cold water, flavored with fennel, anise, and mahlab. It is filled or coated with a mixture of toasted sesame, sugar, ghee, cinnamon, cardamom, and sugar syrup. The video contains no clear speech, so preparation steps cannot be extracted from it.
A sweet baked pastry filled with dates and topped or made with sesame.
Like date cookies or stuffed date pastries.
Ingredients
- 1 kilogram Flour
- half a kilogram (2.5 cups) Ghee
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Cold water
- 1 teaspoon Fennel
- 1 teaspoon Anise
- half a teaspoon Mahleb
- 5 tablespoons Sugar syrup (shira)
- half a kilogram Toasted sesame seeds
- 2 tablespoons Sugar
- 5 tablespoons Sugar syrup (shira)
- 2 tablespoons Ghee
- half a teaspoon Cinnamon
- half a teaspoon Cardamom
- 2 tablespoons Sugar syrup (shira)