Video
Msemmen (Moroccan Crepes)
Ingredients
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup of semolina
- 3/4 cup of oil
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 1 tablespoon of salt
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of dry yeast
- 1-2 cups of warm water (depending on the quality of absorption of your flour)
Directions
Steps for making the dough:
1- Mix all the dry ingredients together (flour, semolina, salt, sugar, and yeast)
2- Slowly add water and work the dough until you are able to create a ball with the dough
3- If you are kneading the dough by hand, use energetic and quick strokes. Knead for 20 minutes while adding water until you get an elastic dough.
4- You can use a kneading machine to speed up the process. Put the dough ball in the machine and automatically knead for the next 10 minutes while adding water.
5- Make small balls with the dough (the size of golf balls) and let the dough rest for 20 minutes.
Note: the amount of water needed depends on the quality of absorption of the flour you are using. the goal is to get at the end an elastic and mallaeable dough. if your dough is too sticky add some flour; if it is too hard add some water and continue kneading it.Steps for folding the Msemmen:
6- Mix the melted butter with the oil.
7- Spread some of the oil/butter mixture on a flat surface. Take one dough ball and flatten it with your hands. Gently keep stretching the dough until you get a thin circle of dough. Fold the circle into a square as shown in the video.Steps for cooking the Msemmen:
8- Gently spread the dough square with your fingertips until you get a thin dough square.
7- On low heat, cook the Msemmen 5-10 minutes in each side.
Note: the Msemmen is served hot with honey and Moroccan mint tea.
Comments (22)
Barkalahufik for the recept and the video.i want to have this recept many years ago.thank you very much.i am going to try it this week inchaAllah.
Hi,
I have been trying to find the right kind of flour for msemen but I wasn't able to. Could you please tell me exactly what kind of flour you usually use?
Thank you, and taberkalah alik!!
thank you alia for your help .really your meals are successful and i enjoy them
Thank you for this easy recipe.My question is : what is the name of the flour u use for msemen and what is the tip for a soft msemen ..mine is always hard.
Hi...
I love your videos. I have a question about the Msemmen.
Do you have the recipe for the meat Msemmen? Please let me know when it will be available on your website.
Thanks, OkcMom
i made these today and got an excellent result! thanks for the great video that made this easy to follow..and thanks for the great recipe!
i followed this recipe a couple of times and the result is fine..but i can not get my dough to stretch as much as yours..it always retracts or rips..why? any tips?
Miss Alia,
I woulid like to thank you very much for the recipes I have seen, above all fekkas with almonds, the krachel and th oilve oil break. I tried them, it was a succes, i love them very much,
thank you again, Allah bless you.
p.s. just try to give us the weigh in grams, we are moroccan and have difficulties to covert in onces
I might be your mother age and I appreciate very much your way of cooking.
thank you again
Hi Alia,
I would like to know what kind of flour do you use in this recipe ?thank you for your best dishes.
Hi,
First I must say that I am eternally grateful for your videorecipes!
I was wondering whether you know a version of msmmen that is stuffed with a spicy onion and paprika mixture? I tasted one of them in marrakech and can't get hold of a recipe.
It would be already helpful to know how to stuff it ( before or after cooking it etc)
Thanks in advance
Katharina
I love Msemmen, but I have a hard time keeping it strechted!! Can we add some other ingredients inside it?
صباح الخير انا سمر اعيش فى استراليا و احب اشكرك على هذا الموقع الجمل الف شكر الحمد لله جربت اعمل فطائر و خبز و كانت ممتازة
بس عوزة اطلب منك ياريت يكون فى طريقه لطبع الاكلات و الحلويات ياريت و الف شكر لكى
Hi Alia!! awhile ago you sent me the recipe "Cuernos de Gazela" that I just to see at the Sopopera "El Clon", but I have missplace it, and lost the real name for that recipe, also the video is gong! I had your addres in a short cut on the Desk of my computer, but unfortunately when I click today on it to remember the procedure of making them I could not see your page, nor the video, I'm craving for those cookies, I would appreciate if you can send me that video again and I promise not to bother anymore, please
Alia, please send it to me.
I love your cooking and the way you explain it, you're the best!!
Thanks, and have a wonderul and succesful year 2011!!
Hi Bertha, you can use the 'Search' box on the upper right corner of my website to look up for any recipe. The Kan El Ghazal is in : http://www.cookingwithalia.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=78&Itemid=110
Greetings from Germany. Yesterday i baked the Msemmen and it taste like holiday.
Steff
I would love it if you could post a video for batbot ( not correct spelling) I really love it and my husband does too!
dear alia
my sisters and i com from holland and we want to try your recipes but we only weigh in grams! so can you try to write with the recipes the grams also???
our thankz is big
much kisses from umm leyla
if the dough does not stay in shape, it means that it needs more time to rest. :-)
can you replace the kneader mixer with dough hooks
yes. it should be fine.
Thank you Alia !! You make my husband proud of me when i cooked msemmen . It was fluffy and delicious ! Could you please make msemmen with beef in your web if that possible ! You are my hero Alia thanks again .
Hi Souad - good job! Msemmsn is a hard one :-)
for ground beef, just cook some with onions and spice, then let it cool down, then place it in the center of the msemmen when you are folding them.