History has been made in our family,! For the first time ever we were able to pull off the beloved (by Moroccans and their non-Moroccan friends and neighbors) Moroccan tradition of making mufleta, and throwing a mini-Mimouna party, in our very own home. Wow, I almost can't believe it! You see for years it was just me cleaning up in the kitchen as soon as Passover had ended, (around 8:30pm) and by the time everything was washed and packed up safely, before bringing any flour into the kitchen, well it was very late and I was not up for more cooking, especially when the family was already asleep! Nonetheless, I do remember saying that just as soon as I had help cleaning up and packing up the Passover kitchen, I would love to make mufleta and of course play some festive Moroccan music and get my hands all sticky from the honey, who wouldn't? (We did enjoy mufleta made by others in their homes.) Flash forward, with three teens on hand to help, we finished cleaning and packing up by 10:40 pm, and my daughter quickly made some mufleta dough, and actually took upon herself to make the mufleta, for the first time ever, and let me tell you, it was the most delicious mufleta ever, truly!
Isn't it funny that I imagined that I'd be making the mufleta, but the next generation already took over, LOVE it, and I know my daughter enjoyed it much more than I would, so yippee. Plus she made a huge amount, 2 kilos of flour worth, so we sent plates full of mufleta to the neighbor across the way who assumed we'd be making some on account of husband's Moroccan roots, and one for the Ashkenazi son in law of the French Algerian neighbors who don't eat any flour products until tomorrow, and a plateful to my daughter's friend two flights down whose father came home and requested that she find some mufleta from a neighbor! Want to give mufleta a try? Keep on reading......