Melomakarono
Sign in to savethumb|right|Finikia The melomakarono ( plural: μελομακάρονα, melomakarona) is an egg-shaped Greek dessert made mainly from flour, olive oil, and honey. Along with the kurabies, it is a traditional dessert prepared primarily during the Christmas holiday season. They are also known as finikia.
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- Melomakarona
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- Greece
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- Dessert
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- Semolina, olive oil and honey
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- Cypriot cuisine
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- semolina
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- Greece
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- Greece
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thumb|right|Finikia The melomakarono ( plural: μελομακάρονα, melomakarona) is an egg-shaped Greek dessert made mainly from flour, olive oil, and honey. Along with the kurabies, it is a traditional dessert prepared primarily during the Christmas holiday season. They are also known as finikia.
Typical ingredients of the melomakarono are flour or semolina, sugar, orange zest and/or fresh juice, cognac (or similar beverage), cinnamon, crushed or ground clove and olive oil. During rolling they are often filled with ground walnuts. Immediately after baking, they are immersed for a few seconds in cold 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melomakarono” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.