CORNES DE GAZELLE (GAZELLE HORNS)
Cornes de gazelle are crescent-shaped cookies that are filled with a sweet almond-orange blossom filling and are topped with crushed pistachios. They popular all over North Africa in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco and are also known as tcherek, tcharek, or kaab el ghazal.
Provided by babou72
Categories World Cuisine Recipes African North African Moroccan
Time 1h16m
Yield 50
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Spread almonds over the baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until almonds are fragrant and roasted, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Prepare pastry dough while almonds are roasting. Combine flour, 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon butter, and salt in a bowl and rub together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add egg, oil, and 1 1/2 tablespoons orange blossom water; knead everything into a smooth pastry dough. Add a little water, 1 teaspoon at a time, if dough is too dry. Shape pastry dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and set aside for 30 minutes.
- Remove almonds from oven and cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Place almonds in the bowl of a food processor; process until finely and evenly ground. Add 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, cinnamon, egg, and 1 tablespoon orange blossom water in that order to the food processor, pulsing after each addition until mixture is evenly combined and resembles a paste.
- Remove small walnut-sized portions of filling with greased hands. Roll them into small logs with thin ends. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll out half of the pastry dough on a lightly floured surface until very thin. Place one of the almond paste logs on the edge of the pastry, fold pastry over the filling, covering it completely, and seal the edges. Mold with your fingers into a crescent shape. Using a pastry cutter, cut around the crescent, and transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
- Bake in the preheated oven until gazelle horns are lightly golden and baked through, about 20 minutes. They should not get too dark. Let cool slightly, about 3 minutes.
- Heat honey in a small saucepan over low-medium heat. Remove from heat and stir in 1 tablespoon orange blossom water. Dip gazelle horns into the honey and place on a serving plate. Sprinkle with crushed pistachios.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 106.5 calories, Carbohydrate 10.6 g, Cholesterol 12.9 mg, Fat 6.6 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 2.3 g, SaturatedFat 1.8 g, Sodium 8.5 mg, Sugar 5.7 g
KAAB EL GHZAL
These most famous of Moroccan pastries are best known abroad by their French name, cornes de gazelle or gazelle's horns. Stuffed with ground-almond paste and curved into horn-shaped crescents, they are ubiquitous wedding-party fare. I have eaten some with a very thin hard crust, and some with a thicker, crumbly crust. This one, made with eggs rather than butter, is thin and crisp.
Yield makes 24-26
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- For the pastry, mix the flour with the eggs and the oil very thoroughly. Then bind with just enough orange juice to hold it together in a soft malleable dough. Wrap in plastic and leave to rest for 1/2 hour.
- Mix the filling ingredients to a soft paste.
- Divide the pastry dough into 4 for easier handling, then roll out into sheets as thinly as possible (about 1/8 inch) on a floured surface, with a floured rolling pin. Cut into 4-inch squares. Take a walnut-sized lump of almond paste and shape into a sausage about 4 1/2 inches long, fatter in the middle and tapering off towards the ends. Place it in the middle of a square, diagonally, on the bias, about 1/3 inch from the corners. Fold the dough over the filling (a wide-bladed knife helps to lift the dough) and roll up, then very gently curve into a crescent, turning the ends away from the point in the middle. Repeat with all the pastry squares and the rest of the paste.
- Arrange on oiled baking sheets and bake in a preheated 375°F oven for 30 minutes. The crescents should not turn brown, but only just begin to color. They will be soft. Do not try to move them until they are cool and firm.
- Dip in confectioners' sugar so that they are entirely covered.
- Some people cut the pastry into rounds, place a line of filling in the middle, and fold the pastry over the filling to make a half-moon shape. They pinch the edges together, trim some of the excess rounded edge, and curve the pastries slightly into a crescent.
MOROCCAN GAZELLE HORNS (KAB EL GHZAL) (CORNES DE GAZELLE)
Make and share this Moroccan Gazelle Horns (Kab El Ghzal) (Cornes De Gazelle) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by littleturtle
Categories Breakfast
Time 3h
Yield 40 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a large chilled bowl, combine the butter, sunflower oil, flour, and salt.
- Using your fingertips, rub the flour and butter together until they look like flakes of coarse meal (Do NOT over mix).
- Pour 6 tablespoons ice water all at once into the mixture; toss together lightly.
- Gather the dough into a ball.
- If the dough crumbles, add ice water a few drops at a time until everything sticks together and forms a soft dough (up to 2 tablespoons).
- Divide the dough in half, dust each half with a little flour, and wrap in waxed paper.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Pre-heat the oven to 350°F (180°C, gas mark 4).
- Spread the almonds out in a shallow baking pan and toast them in the middle of the oven until they are lightly browned, turning them occasionally (8-10 minutes).
- Pulverize the almonds in a blender, nut grinder, or using a mortar and pestle.
- Then, using the back of a spoon, rub ground almonds through a fine sieve into a deep bowl.
- Add the sugar, cinnamon, and 1 tablespoon orange blossom water and knead with your hands into a stiff paste.
- Add the almond paste, butter, and egg, and beat vigorously with a spoon until mixture is smooth.
- Raise the oven temp to 400°F.
- On a lightly floured surface, pat half of the dough into a rough rectangle about 1-inch thick.
- Dust a little flour over and under the rectangle, and roll it out from the center to within an inch or so of the far edge of the pastry.
- Lift the dough and rotate it 90°; roll again from the center to within an inch or so of the far edge.
- Repeat - lifting, turning, rolling - until the rectangle is a little less than 1/8-inch thick (If the dough sticks at any point during the rolling, lift it gently with a metal spatula and sprinkle a little flour under it).
- Using a ruler and a pastry wheel or a sharp knife, cut the dough into 3-inch squares.
- For each cookie, roll 1 teaspoon almond filling between your palms to form a cylinder about 2-inches long and 1/2-inch in diameter.
- Place a square of dough so that it's oriented as a diamond, and place the cylinder horizontally across it 1/2-inch down from the top point.
- Lift the top point up and fold it over so that it covers the filling.
- Then, starting with the folded edge, roll the dough up tightly jelly-roll fashion.
- Pinch the ends firmly closed, and gently shape the roll into a crescent.
- Arrange the crescents about 1-inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet, and bake in the middle of the oven until golden brown (20 minutes).
- Transfer to wire racks and sprinkle them evenly with 1 tablespoon orange blossom water.
- One at a time, dip the pastries in the powdered sugar to coat them lightly, and return them to the racks to cool.
- While the first batch is baking, roll out and cut the remaining half of the dough, and repeat the process for filling and shaping.
- While the first batch is cooling, bake the second batch until golden brown (20 minutes).
- Transfer to wire racks and sprinkle them evenly with the remaining tablespoon orange blossom water.
- Roll in powdered sugar, and let cool to room temperature before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 174.6, Fat 13.4, SaturatedFat 6.3, Cholesterol 29.7, Sodium 33.4, Carbohydrate 12.2, Fiber 0.8, Sugar 4.1, Protein 2.2
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