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Thueban with almond filling

by Adrian
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A lovely Moroccan sweet

Thueban with almond filling

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Serves: 8 Prep Time: Cooking Time:
Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

  • 175 g butter
  • 250g blanched white ground almonds
  • 120g icing sugar
  • 3 tbsp orange blossom water (Fleur d'oranger),
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste (or seeds of a vanilla stick)
  • 2 eggs

Instructions

  1. Melt 75 g butter.
  2. In a bowl, mix the icing sugar with almonds, orange blossom water, vanilla paste and 1 egg.
  3. Add the liquid butter and mix well.
  4. Melt 100g butter.
  5. Coat a sheet of filo dough (approx. 35x45 cm) with liquid butter, place a second dough sheet on top and spread with liquid butter. Put a third sheet of dough on top.
  6. Take about a quarter of the almond filling and line it as an 1 cm thick roll on the upper edge of the shorter side.
  7. Roll up the dough sheet and cut into three dough rolls of 10-12 cm each.
  8. Repeat three additional times so that a total of 12 dough rolls have been created.
  9. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
  10. Whisk an egg yolk and spread on the dough rolls. Drizzle any remaining melted butter on top.
  11. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes and cool down on a grid.