Mediterranean desserts are the soft and sweeter side of Europe’s cuisines. Their best flavors and textures are making them more renowned than all other desserts.
To seek enjoyment from hills to shores they are best to carry and try as lavish and indulgent foods. If you love butter with olive oils then these Mediterranean desserts are perfect for you with variable flavors.
Moreover, there is diversity in the additions of them about climate and some personal choices. They are rounded up and eaten in Spain, Italy, Greece, and a lot of other representative countries. Let’s uncover some of your best flavors.
Macarons
For the preparation of macarons, we use icing sugar, ground almonds, egg white, granulated sugar, red food coloring, double cream, dark chocolate, unsalted butter, and raspberry jam. These are step-wise guidelines to make your best macarons:
- in a food processor keep icing sugar and almonds and pulse them.
- Add egg white in the past, make it thicken, and set it aside.
- In another pan put egg white and keep an electric whisk here.
- In a pan put water, and sugar, and boil it to make this syrup register.
- Continue to whisk it until the mixture becomes cool and gives a shiny appearance.
- Tip meringue and almond mixture together. And mix this batter well.
- Keep it in the oven and bake it, and transfer it to a bag and hold this bag vertically to the tray.
- Leave macarons for 30 minutes to develop outer skin on them.
- Remove them from the oven and let them cool.
- Then make a filling them, by placing cream and chocolate in a medium-sized pan. Add butter to it and let it stand.
- Before serving keep them in the fridge overnight.
Tiramisu
Tiramisu is one of the renowned Mediterranean desserts, a mixture of ladyfingers with cream or mascarpone making them classic. Ingredients for its preparation are egg yolks, granulated sugar, heavy cream, mascarpone, coffee, cognac, cocoa powder, ladyfingers, and bittersweet chocolate.
Here it is the stepwise guidelines for its preparation:
- In an electric mixture, put egg yolks and sugar and make them smooth.
- Transfer this mixture to a bowl and put it aside.
- In another bowl add cream, sugar, and mascarpone and make it soft. Continue stirring to make it fine.
- Mix espresso and put them in another bowl.
- Place cocoa powder on the bottom of the baking dish by using a sifter.
- Dip ladyfingers in espresso mixture and place in the bottom of the dish. Repeat this process for all of them.
- Make a layer of mascarpone on ladyfingers.
- On top of all make a dusting of cocoa powder and finely grated chocolate.
- Cover it and keep it in the refrigerator before serving.
Imqaret Mediterranean Dessert
make your tea time decadent with these buttery pastries filled with spice or citrusy date paste. For its preparation, we use chopped dates, orange rind, cinnamon, star anise, ground cloves, vanilla extract, vegetable oil, plain flour, chopped butter, baking powder, orange blossom, and warm water.
Here it is stepwise guidelines for its preparation.
- Mix baking powder and flour by adding aniseeds to it.
- Rub butter with flour mixture by mixing fine bread crumbs.
- In the mixture add water slowly, and mix to make a dough.
- In a pan add all the ingredients of the filling and heat it for a while.
- After making them fine put them aside to make them cold.
- Roll the pieces in a rectangular form.
- Add date mixture to it and fold the edges. Make its edges wet with water.
- After filling fry, it in a pan with hot vegetable oil for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Use a pastry brush for frying to keep them in shape.
- Sprinkle this Mediterranean Dessert with icing sugar and serve with cream.
Madarica
Madarica is a welcome addition to every festival table. For its preparation, we use flour, egg white, baking powder, sugar, butter, milk, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, sugar, butter, rum, dark chocolate, and oil.
These are directions to preparing your best Madarica:
- Prepare your filling first.
- For its preparation cook milk with cocoa powder and flour and stir it for a time to make a thick paste of it.
- Remove it from heat and leave for a while to make it cool.
- Prepare dough to make cake layers. To make dough add sugar, eggs, and sour cream.
- Make the thin possible layers of this dough and transfer them to the baking tray.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and bake the layers.
- Prepare butter chocolate melt for glazing.
- To make a perfect cake assembly make the layers and form the best finishing.
- Let it in the refrigerator for a night and serve the next day with cuttings in form of rectangles.
Biscotti Mediterranean Dessert
Biscotti is a favorite holiday recipe that can also be served as dessert. To make it we use ingredients like butter, sugar, eggs, flavors, extracts, salt, baking powder, flour, nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruits, and some other mix-ins.
Here are the guidelines for its preparation:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. And make a greasing of cookie sheets.
- In a bowl add oil, eggs, anise extract, and sugar, and blend it well.
- Take another bowl and add flour and baking powder in it to form a heavy dough.
- Make some equal pieces of dough, keep them on prepared sheets, and try to press it for 1 to 2 inches.
- Bake them in preheated oven for 20 to 30 minutes to make them brown or golden.
- Transfer them to wire racks and let them cool.
- Place all of these slices on a cookie sheet after cutting and bake for 5 minutes from each side to make them toasted.
- Your flavored and delicious biscotti are prepared and each of its servings will be full of calories, fat, carbs, and proteins.
Conclusion
These are some of the Mediterranean Desserts to try that are not only easy to try but also full of flavors and delights to add value to your table and make your holiday servings awesome. All of these can be prepared in a limited time but chilling may take time for the best servings.
