Aqrāṣ Mukallala (Sugar-Glazed Pistachio Discs)

Ingredients

• fine flour
• sugar
• pistachios
• julep syrup
• fine perfumed sugar

Instructions

1. Knead fine flour to a medium consistency and leave until it ferments.
2. Pound sugar and pistachios fine, knead with julep syrup (jullāb) and perfume; form into small discs and coat with the fermented dough.
3. Bake in the oven.
4. Sprinkle half a raṭl of sugar into dissolved sugar, stirring until firm; pour into a vessel and dip the discs so the glaze congeals over them.
5. Dust with finely pounded perfumed sugar, leave to cool, and use.