Melwi

[amina_imen]

Houda here is the recipe you were interested in! The folding steps are different!!!
You were lucky I found some pictures too!



Ingredients:

(That’s how I make it)

* 3 measures fine semolina

* 1 teaspoon salt

* Water

* Butter ~ 1 measure

* Medium or coarse semolina


Preparation:


Add salt to the semolina. Knead the semolina with water till the dough is light and smooth.
Divide into little balls.

Heat a stove (or an Algerian tajine) in the meantime.

(A) Sprinkle medium or coarse semolina onto a clean working surface, spread the dough ball with the palm of your hand, stretching gently in all senses until it’s very thin.





(B) Melt the butter and brush it over the dough, sprinkle with medium semolina, then fold two sides back in. Brush with more butter and sprinkle more semolina then roll the dough as in the picture.








Put the dough (that looks like a ball) on the working surface so that you can see the folds giving the shape of a snail. Repeat the same as above, i.e. (A) and (B) : spreading the dough, butter, semolina, folding, butter, semolina and rolling.








Now repeat (A) and (B) once more, and another time!!

Finish by spreading the dough ball into a round pancake shape of ~ 1 cm thickness.

Repeat the procedure with all dough balls.

Gild them on the 2 faces on a hot oiled stove.









Hope that wasn't too confusing, tried to simplify it lol.

BON APPÉTIT!







[Edited by amina_imen on 19th January 2005 at 01:35]

[HOUDA-K]

Habibatti,

We cook the Melwi the same way ~ lol

Shame about the pictures

[amina_imen]

Always good for other forumers

PS: You are confusing me lol, I thought you thought melwi was the one you saw in my previous post (M'samen)?

[HOUDA-K]

Wow ! I didn’t expect similarities in our methods of cooking ~ lol

BTW, I so need to come back to you if we have another name for stuffed Melwi ~

[amina_imen]

Just checked with a Moroccan friend, Melwi is the same as the Algerian one but requires endless (A) and (B) steps!!! So the layers are a lot thinner and richer (more steps ---> more butter obviously)!

She said M'samen is the same or may be called Mcha'hed depending on Moroccan region..or may be something else!

Same in Algeria, it's called differently in different parts of Algeria (M'samen, Mcha'hed, M3akra, Msemnet...)

[3rdTroop]

booh 3likom ya nsa, hadak n3aytoulou leftire.
shetti shetti ya houda

pics disabled!

[amina_imen]

Too many names in one day!!

Why pics disabled?