Darabeel

Method 7 steps

1. 1

   Dissolve the yeast with the sugar in the warm milk and leave it ten minutes, until it foams.

2. 2

   Steep the saffron in a spoon of hot water and knead a dough with the flour, egg, half the butter and cardamom.

3. 3

   Let the dough rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.

4. 4

   Warm the date paste with the remaining butter and cardamom until soft.

5. 5

   Roll the dough into a rectangle half a centimetre thick and spread the date paste over it.

6. 6

   Roll it up tight and cut it into two-centimetre rounds.

7. 7

   Set them cut side up, prove them twenty minutes and bake at 180 °C for twenty-five minutes.