Persian Chickpea Flour Cookies (nan-e Nokhochi )

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 2 cups chickpea flour

Recipe

• 1 beat butter & powdered sugar together until creamy.
• 2 add egg yolk & cardamom.
• 3 with your hands knead in the chickpea flour until smooth.
• 4 pinch off tiny pieces of dough about the size of hazelnuts and roll them into balls between the palms of your hands.
• 5 decorate the tops of the cookies by pricking them with the tines of a fork or by pressing the back of the tines horizontally onto the cookies.
• 6 place on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake in a slow oven (300f) for about 30 minutes. this dough is very "short" and needs to be well kneeded. for an even "shorter" dough, omit the egg yolk.