Couscouma - Comores

Receta en Español

Couscouma or Mardouf is the typical bread from Comores, it is made from wheat flour and butter or ghee.

The recipe I present today is the traditional one adding grated cheese and chive.

This bread is eaten daily and at big feasts like weddings and during Ramadam

Ingredients:

- 500 gr wheat flour.

- 200 gr butter or ghee.

- 1 glass of water.

- Salt.

- Grated cheese.

- Chive.

Method:

1- Sieve the flour and put it in a bowl, add water and mix well, add a table spoon of melted butter and mix well, knead for 10 minutes until the dough is not sticky.

2- Divide the dough into 6 parts, shape them like little balls.

Let them stand for 10 minutes, cover the bowl.

3- Take one ball of dough and use a rolling pin to flatten it.

4- Add some melted butter on the surface.

5- Add grated cheese and chopped chive.

6- Put the dough in the shape of a cilinder ,as you see in the pictures:

7 - Put the cilinder in the shape of two spirals.

8 - Add some melted butter.

9 - Put one spiral on top of the other, flatten with the help of a rolling pin.

10 - Add more melted butter on the surface.

11 - Put on a frying pan with the surface that has the butter upside down. Fry for 1 minute.

12 - Put some melted butter on the other surface and flip down, Cook until it is sligtly brown.

 Receta en Español

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