Tahini cookie

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Tahini cookie
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Tahini cookies
Course Dessert
Place of origin Israel
Main ingredients Tahini, flour, sugar, butter
VariationsTahini mixed with date molasses, rose water

Tahini cookie is a cookie made of tahini, flour, sugar and butter and usually topped with almonds or pine nuts.

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Preparation

The traditional way to prepare tahini cookies [1] is to combine flour, sugar and butter until it creates a crumbly mixture before adding in the raw tahini. Balls of dough are then shaped into round, flat cookies, oftentimes with almonds or pine nuts pressed into them. The baked cookie resembles a shortbread. Variations that include adding cinnamon, rose water, orange blossom water, date molasses or grape molasses are widespread across Israel.

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References

  1. Katie, Chocolate Covered (2022-04-27). "Tahini Cookies - The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe!". Chocolate Covered Katie. Retrieved 2023-08-20.