Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies. Barazek is a delicious Syrian cookie with sesame seeds and crushed pistachios, flavored with spices, vanilla and honey. With its light and crisp texture, this little sweet delicacy goes perfectly with a hot drink. Barazeks are cookies filled with roasted sesame seeds and pistachio chips from Syria. These crunchy biscuits are made of a fine sweet dough, very rich in butter and. Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies This is an easy recipe to prepare these famous & crunchy Syrian cookies at home.

This honey sesame cookies recipe from Corsica most likely originated in Turkey centuries ago, since it is essentially the same as the Turkish barazek. A coating of honey-dipped, toasted sesame seeds is what gives these delicious cookies their special kick. Knead butter, flour and sugar with hands until you get soft dough. You can have Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies

It's of Dough:.
You need 3 1/2 cups of flour.
It's 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, superfine.
Prepare 255 1/8 g of butter.
You need 1 cup of milk.
Prepare 255 1/8 g of sesame seeds.
Prepare 5 1/2 cups of pistachios, crushed.
It's 1 tablespoon of butter, melted.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of yeast, active dry.
Prepare of Sugar Syrup:.
You need 1 cup of powdered sugar, superfine.
It's 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
It's 1 teaspoon of rosewater, or orange blossoms.
You need 1/2 cup of water.

Put sesame in a large tray. Dip one side of the cookie into sesame. Arrange barazek on a baking sheet with the sesame side up. In a bowl, mix the sesame seeds with half the cooled syrup then place the seeds on a plate.

Original Barazik: Sesame Cookies step by step

For the Sugar Syrup, boil the water and sugar in a sauce pan then leave over medium heat till the syrup begins to thicken. Add the lemon juice and rose water or orange-blossoms water. Set aside to cool..
For the Dough, mix the butter and sugar in a bowl till soft..
Add in the flour, yeast and milk, and mix till you get a dough. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes..
Meanwhile, mix together the sesame seeds, melted butter and the sugar syrup. Place in a flat plate..
Place the pistachios in a flat plate..
Roll the dough into small balls then flatten into circular cookies..
Dip one side of each cookie in the sesame mixture and the other side in the crushed pistachios, then arrange cookies in a baking tray and bake for 10 minutes..
Leave to cool..

Prepare another plate with the crushed pistachios. Using your fingers, dip the sticky dough in the pistachio plate first, then flip the cookie and dip it in the sesame seeds. Gently brush one side of each cookie with egg white and dust with the crushed pistachios, then do the same on the other side with the sesame. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before eating. From "Seductive Flavors of the Levant" by Nada Saleh.