Chickpea Cookies (Nan-e nokhodchi)

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Chickpeas are fashionable successful Persian cooking. This look calls for a peculiar roasted chickpea flour that is triple-sifted; it is disposable astatine Mediterranean markets and helps make the distinctive, sandy and rather tender texture of these cookies.

If you person chickpea pulverization near over, usage it to thicken oregon hindrance soups, stews and meatballs.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 24 hours. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 days oregon frozen for up to 1 month.

Adapted from "Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies" (25th Anniversary Edition, Mage, 2011), by Washington cookbook writer Najmieh Batmanglij.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 40)

• Calories

  110

• Fat

  6 g

• Carbohydrates

  11 g

• Sodium

  20 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies" (25th Anniversary Edition, Mage, 2011), by Washington cookbook writer Najmieh Batmanglij.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.