Sellou

Ingredients

• 500 g flour
• 250 g blanched almonds
• 250 g sesame seeds
• 1/2 tbsp ground anise
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp mastic, crushed
• 260 g melted butter
• 400 g icing sugar
• toasted chopped almonds or toasted sesame seeds to decorate

Method

1. Brown the flour on a tray in an oven preheated to 160 °C, turning it now and then so that it does not burn.
2. Leave to cool and sift into a large bowl with the salt, anise, cinnamon and mastic.
3. Toast the sesame in the oven and, while still warm, grind it with half the icing sugar into a dense, oily paste.
4. Toast the almonds in the oven and grind them finely with the rest of the icing sugar.
5. Knead the flour, sesame paste and almonds by hand or in a mixer for 10 to 15 minutes until the mixture becomes firm.
6. Add the melted butter and knead for another 5 minutes.
7. Press the mixture 2 cm deep into a tin lined with baking paper, cover with film and refrigerate for 2 hours.
8. Turn out, cut into diamonds and decorate with chopped almonds or sesame.