Tunisian Almond Balls – Kaber Ellouz

Kaber Ellouz is one of our family’s favourite Tunisian delicacies! I have always been intrigued by it’s sweet goodness since the first day I tasted it. Until this week I never knew how easy it was to make these at home. So easy that it’s funny!

Several months ago me and a friend made them, but we made the mistake of grounding our own almonds. Don’t bother grounding your own almonds (unless there is a trick you know and I don’t), our grounded almonds were very oily and thus overpowering. At our local nut store I bought some ground almonds and the difference is like night and day.

So buying the right ground almonds is the secret to success. Once you have the ground almonds your on your way. One of the recipes called for orange flower water water the other for geranium water and hubby suggested using rosewater. Seeing as we had this in house we used the last.

I hope that you really enjoy making these and shared them with your friends and family.

Ingredients
250 gr ground almonds
125 gr icing sugar
4 tablespoons rosewater
red & green food colouring
fine caster sugar for rolling balls

Method
In a bowl mix together the ground almonds, icing sugar and rosewater. Once the ingredients are well mixed let the mixture rest for about half and hour. Separate the mixture into 3 parts, set aside one and colour the other parts pink and green by adding at first 1 drop and if needed 1 more drop.

Roll each part into a long strip and align them, if you prefer you can intertwine them before cutting off equal amounts. In your hands roll the almond mixture into balls and then roll lightly in caster sugar.

 

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