Purim Poppy Seed Hamentaschen
By: Cookingstyle
Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 4:53pm

Ingredients




Dough:
300 grams plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
100 grams icing sugar
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200 grams cold butter
1/4 cold milk (you may need bit more)
Icing sugar for sprinkling on top after baking
Filling:
100 grams sugar
150 mls milk or orange juice 
2 packets vanilla sugar or 1 teaspoon good vanilla extract
lemon zest, to taste (I used zest of ½  lemon)
50 grams raisins, chopped fine with knife (optional)
150 grams fresh, ground poppy seeds
100 grams honey

Preparation

1 Sieve together twice the flour, baking powder, icing sugar, and a pinch of salt. 2 In a food processor, add the above dry ingredients and cubed cold butter; pulse to get a crumb-like mixture. Add vanilla extract, then add milk as needed to get soft dough but not too soft. Do not over mix . Remove and flatten the mix on plastic sheet, refrigerate it for two hours (can prepare it and keep over night) . 3 Roll the dough between two sheets of baking wax paper lightly dusted. 4 Cut out circles with round 6 cm cookie cutter 5 Put 1 teaspoon of the filling in the middle of each circle. 6 Fold up the sides to make a triangle. (pinch the lines) 7 Bake at 175 C  for 15 - 20 minutes ( i used turbo mode) until light gold. 8 Cool. dust with icing sugar. 9 Find reliable bodyguard. 10 Filing: In small pan, add sugar, milk or orange juice. bring them to a boil. Add poppy seeds, lemon zest, raisins cook on low fire until the mixture is tick. remove and add honey. stir  let it cool before using.

About


Happy Purim!  Purim is a few days away. You can read about this great holiday in the link. I'm sharing with you the most traditional cookies recipe every one eat during the holiday- they are a must.  When was the last time you had  an "Oznei Haman "  ("Haman's ears")?  Filled  with nutty Poppy seeds, flavored with orange juice, honey and vanilla, they're the perfect festive companion for Purim "Mishloach manot" .
And the best of it ? they are legal and no side effect at all....
Enjoy.