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Mamoul, pronounced (ma’mul), and usually written in different ways, such as Maamoul and Mamula is a traditional Middle Eastern cookie filled with nuts and consumed throughout the year, but especially on special occasions and days holidays. Due to the nutritional value due to its abundance in nuts, children are often covered as a substitute for sugar cookies, and much less nutritional value they have offered.

Mamoul baklava to go, and usually together, as both are traditional Arab sweets and eat at the same time. Moreover, people tend to enjoy the taste of desire in the first place.
Most people in the Arab countries are familiar with the first but the second is only popular in some countries. The original version is a fully rounded cookie and fine semolina pistachio nuts, walnuts or dates. Versions of chopped walnuts and pistachios are full of sugar. This is a traditional cookie is hundreds of years and became popular in many countries around the world. The people are friendly, it is because nuts filling a healthy substitute for sugar cookies and chocolate, which are considered unhealthy for most people. This cookie from the Middle East seems very interesting from the standpoint of health.

On the other hand, “Mamoul mad,” the Lebanese to “flat pan” is a pistachio, walnuts, dates, or cream filling between layers of semolina dough is flattened. Coverage is denser than the original version and makes it sweeter and richer. Its bark is still very sensitive and tends to break easily.
To distinguish between different varieties, it is usually the model of biscuits filled with cone-shaped nut, so the boat with the dates and pistachio cookies filled alfajores extended.
Mamoul have a relatively short duration, compared to the baklava, and each piece is usually individually wrapped to preserve freshness.