Amlou - almonds and argan oil spread
Cooking time: 10 min. / 10 min.Difficulty: easy
Fresh pieces of bread dipped into amlou were fore sure my favourite breakfast in Morocco. If you are a peanut butter lover, you will love amlou too. It is smooth and nicely sweet, made of ground almonds, argan oil and honey. Traditional recipe is quite runny compared to peanut butter. As they do not spread it on bread, they dip the bread into amlou.
Process
Roast almonds on a dry pan till brown and crunchy, not burned. It takes 5-10 minutes.
Blend almonds finely. In Morocco they use traditional mortar, which you can see on the picture below.
Pour in oil and stir well.
Sweeten up by honey and stir well again.
Traditional way of eating amlou is dipping pieces of bread / khobz (or other kinds of Moroccan flat bread) into it. And it is served with Moroccan tea of course.
Store in closed jars in a room temperature. Stir before serving, as the oil usually separates from the ground almonds a bit.
To buy argan oil: US, UK, Europe
Ingredients
For 2 small jars:
- 200g unpeeled almonds
- 100 ml argan oil
- 65 ml honey
