I have always loved eating Shirini Morabaii or Shirini Mashhadi, and I was looking forward to the Eid table because I wanted my mother to make this delicious sweet for the New Year. I loved the jam that was always on top of this sweet, and I ate the jam first and then the sweet.
Shirin Mashhadi is a very delicious and soft Iranian sweet made from a combination of two biscuits with jam in the middle.
This sweet is prepared from a combination of flour, vanilla, sugar, baking powder, and almond marmalade. So be with us in this article with Meals Cook site.
How do you prepare Shirini Morabaii?
Preparation time:60 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients :
| Butter at ambient temperature | 0.2 pound |
| Wheat flour | 0.4 pound |
| Powdered sugar | 0.1 pound |
| Egg | 1 pcs |
| Vanilla | A teaspoon |
| Baking powder | 1/8 teaspoon |
| Marmalade strawberry jam, or your favorite jam, melted chocolate, and pistachio powder for decoration | as needed |
Shirini Morabaii Recipe
1. First, pour the butter that has reached room temperature into the bowl, and then mix the powdered sugar with it.
With a spoon, mix the butter and powdered sugar together. Then, mix the ingredients with an electric mixer until smooth and It becomes uniform and white.
2. After the mixture of powdered sugar and butter becomes uniform and becomes creamy, add eggs and vanilla and mix the ingredients again with a mixer.
3. After that, we sift the flour. Pay attention; I sift the flour in three steps until it becomes uniform.
In each step, we pour some sifted flour, and then we mix it again with the ingredients. In the last step, we also add baking powder along with the flour.
4. Then, we mix all the ingredients with our hands and knead. We continue this until a soft and uniform dough is provided.
After that, put the dough in a plastic bag and let it rest in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
5. After the dough is ready, take it out of the refrigerator, open it, and start rolling it out with a rolling pin. After the dough is completely opened, we start molding it.
6. In the molding step, you can use different molds according to your taste. I use a round and heart mold. After molding, transfer the dough to the grease-proof paper that you have placed on the oven tray.
For the second mold, in the middle, be sure to make holes in the dough. For this, you can use a smaller mold or the lid of a soft drink bottle.
7. Knead the corners of the dough and the pieces of dough together again, flatten, and mold.
After molding the sweets, transfer them to the oven at 180 degrees Celsius. The baking time is between 15 and 20 minutes.
8. After the specified time and the cookies are cooked, let them cool down completely and reach the ambient temperature.
After cooling, put aside the cookies without holes and decorate the cookies with holes with melted chocolate. If you want, you can add pistachio powder.
9. Then, we fill the cookies without holes, which we put in the lower part of the cookie, with strawberry marmalade or cherry jam as desired.
10. I put these Persian sweets in the refrigerator for 45 minutes until they are ready, and after 45 minutes, we take them out of the fridge.
This Persian Sweet for Nowruz, and you can eat them with Persian tea or Sour Cherry Tea.
Notes :
| Important notes |
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| To work more cleanly, use a funnel instead of a spoon to pour jam or marmalade on the pastry. |
| To decorate the cookies, you can use pistachio powder, coconut powder, sesame seeds, pistachio nuts, marigold flowers, almonds, or truffles. |
| For the pistachio and coconut powder to stick better on the cookies, smear the surface of the cookie with honey or marmalade with a pen so that the powder easily sticks to them. |
| For intermediate ingredients, you can use various types of marmalade or jam, Cornelian Cherry Jam, Moraba Havij, or citron jam. |
| Be sure to use grease-proof paper on the bottom of the tray so that the cookies can be removed more easily. |
| If the dough stays in the fridge too long, it will dry out the pastry. |
| Be careful not to pour too much jam on the side of the cookie because it will make it stick out and make the appearance ugly. |
| You can use melted milk and chocolate. |
| Shirini Mashhadi, despite being a dry cookie, should have a soft texture. The reason for the drying of Mashhadi sweets or any other sweets can be one of these three reasons: lack of oil, too much stirring of the pastry dough, and adding too much liquid such as water or milk to it, and of course, sometimes the high temperature of the oven. |
| Shirini gerdooee and shirini papioni, like shirini mashhadi, are among the best Iranian sweets for the Haft Sin table on Nowruz Eid. |
FAQ :
1. What are the other names of jam sweets?
Mashhadi sweets are also called.
2. What are the main ingredients of jam sweets?
Flour, sugar, egg, jam, and vanilla are the main ingredients of this cookie.
3. What kind of drink is usually served with Shirini Morabaii?
It is usually served with Iranian tea or cherry tea.
Did you like the Shirini Mashhadi recipe?
In my opinion, there is one of the Iranian sweets that is hard to find and buy in America: jam sweets. What do you think?
I like this recipe and it makes me feel happy when l look at its images. Thank you.
Hi dear Noble, Yes, that’s exactly the same, it has a nostalgic feeling for me too
Thank you for your beautiful speech