Chebbakia

Ingredients:

• 2 kg of flour. 
• 300 grams of toasted sesame seeds and crushed. 
• 30 grams of aniseed. 
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 
• 1 packet of saffron diluted in a spoon of water. 
• 4 kg of honey.

• 1/2 cup of vinegar.  
• 3 beaten eggs.  
• 300 grams of butter.  
• 30 grams of yeast diluted in half glass of warm water and 1 piece of sugar.   
• 2 glasses of lukewarm water.

 

Preparation:  

1. In a large flat, place the flour, and make a well and add the ingredients one by one
2. Mix well and knead long (10-15 min) the dough with the palms of the hand, make several balls the size of a large orange. 
3. Cover with a cloth.
4. Take a ball, the kneading property in the hands, flatten slightly, and then spread with a rolling pin until you get a thick sheet of 2 millimeter.
5. By means of a toothed wheel, even the edges so as to have a square of 8 cm. in this square to four long parallel incisions so as to obtain five strips. Begin and end these incisions 1 inch from the edge.
6. Taken with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand pairs strips then enter with the right hand, the two opposing to assemble through the bottom corners.
7. Then take a little left hand to the left and the right hand to the right, with the tangle of straps are obtained as a rose should be handled delicately. Repeat the process with the remaining balls until all the dough. 
8. In a saucepan, heat oil honey.
9. In a skillet, heat oil and brown the cakes on both sides, remove and immediately plunge into the hot honey.
10. Drain with a slotted spoon and immediately sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds.

 

For: 1 kg Chebbakia.

Preparation time: 40 min.

                                                                Cooking time: 60 minutes