The feeling I get while making Moufleta is so nostalgic.
I can picture my grandmother, along with my aunts, flattening those delicious treats every Mimouna and adding them to a spread of incredible moroccan pastries, that I wish I knew how to make.
Every Mimouna (the night after Pessach) we wish everyone “Terbah” which literally means “you shall win”. And as we all know, Pessach is a special time that Hashem promised us that we will receive the Geoulah. My Bracha to us as a nation, is that this year not only each one of us will win, but we will win our final redemption as a nation, with Mashiach.
8 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp orange blossom water (optional)
2 tbsp yeast + 3 tbsp warm water
About 3 3/4 cup warm water
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DIRECTIONS:
Prepare your yeast paste by mixing the yeast and 3 tbsp water in a small bowl. In a mixer, combine flour, sugar, salt, oil. Make sure to separate the salt from the sugar.
Transfer your yeast paste in your mixer, near your sugar. Turn on your mixer at the lowest speed to incorporate everything. VERY GRADUALLY add your water. Stop adding when your dough gets very soft. This may take 10 minutes. Mix dough for another 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare a very oily baking sheet. When your dough is ready, form small balls, about the size of an egg, no bigger. Place on oily surface. Repeat until all your dough is formed. ( this is the point where you would freeze the raw balls of dough)
Drizzle thin layer of oil on balls and cover for 1 hour. You will start with the first ball that you formed.
Clean your work surface. Prepare a bowl of oil and oil your surface. Heat a non stick pan at medium low heat.
With oily hands, take a ball of dough and start flattening it on your surface. Use your palm and press from center out. You need to make it as thin as possible and should be able to see your surface through it.
Place in your preheated pan. Prepare your next moufleta. Flip moufleta in pan and add next one on top. Repeat always by flipping first then adding on top. When you reach about 10-12 in a stack, remove and place in towel so they don’t dry out. Restart.
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Enjoy,
Guila
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