Persian Rice Cookie (Nan e Berenji) / Gluten Free Cookies | Easy Cookies Recipe

Even though healthy cookies are typically whole wheat without maida, wheat also has gluten. Today many people was even gluten free and there is good demand for gluten free cookies. Our own rice is gluten free. In Persia, there is a rice cookie made from rice flour. I immediately tried it and it came out really well. Try this cookie for sure.

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Recipe Cuisine : International / Persian | Recipe Category: Baking | Source : Saveur

Preparation Time: 15 mins  | Cooking Time: 12 mins | Yields: 15 cookies

Ingredients:

Rice Flour	1 cup (1 cup = 240 ml)
Butter	½ cup
Oil (odorless)	3 tbsp
Cardamom Powder or essence	¼ tsp
For Sugar Syrup:
Sugar	¾ cup
Water	¼ cup
Rose Essence	½ tsp
For Garnish:
Poppy Seeds	1 tbsp

 Procedure:

Sugar Syrup:

1. In a pan, add ¾ cup sugar and ¼ cup water. Heat the mixture till the sugar dissolves completely. Don’t  oven boil and make it thick mixture.

2. Switch off the flame, add rose essence and allow it to cool down. Keep it aside.

Cookie:

3.  In a wide bowl, add butter and beat the butter till it reach fluffy using the whisk or electric beater.

4. Add rice flour, oil and cardamom powder or essence with butter mixture. Mix them well.

5. Add sugar syrup (from 2) with this rice flour-butter mixture. Then knead them into a soft and pliable dough.

6. Wrap the dough with plastic sheet and keep it in the refrigerator for 30 mins.

7. After 30 mins, roll the dough into ¼ inch thickness sheet using the rolling pin. (Dust the rolling surface with rice flour).

8. Cut the sheet with round cookie cutter or bottle cap (2 inch diameter).

9. Make flower patter using the knife (see the picture) or just press with fork.

10. Place a pinch of poppy seeds at the center of the cookie and press them gently.

11. Arrange the cookies on the ungreased baking tray. Leave ½ inch gap between them.

12. Preheat the oven for 200 degree Celsius.

13. Bake the cookies for 13 mins at 140 degree Celsius.

14. Allow them to cool down completely on the tray itself.

15. Then take them out from the tray and serve.

       Really yummy, delicious and gluten free cookies are ready!

Note:

1. You can use either homemade rice flour (Recipe HERE) or store bought rice flour.

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Persian Naan-e-Notochi / Perisan Besan Cookies (Eggless and Butterless)

This Besan cookies is very easy to make and have without guilt, because we make these cookies without butter. This is very well known cookie from Persia.

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Recipe Cuisine : International / Persian | Recipe Category: Baking

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time: 8 mins | Yields: 15 cookies

Ingredients:

Besan Flour / Gram Flour / Kadalai Maavu	¾ cup (1 cup = 240 ml)
Odor less oil	¼ cup
Icing Sugar (Recipe HERE)	2 tbsp
Rose Water	½ tsp
Cardamom Powder	¼ tsp
Pista Nuts	5 nos

Procedure:

1. Dry roast the Gram flour till the nice aroma comes out from the flour. Allow it to cool down completely.

2. Cut the pista nuts in to very thin slices.

3. Now add the roasted flour, icing sugar, cardamom powder and oil in a wide bowl.

4. Knead them into a soft and pliable dough.

5. Roll the dough into 1/4 inch thickness circle (like chapathi) on the dry rolling surface using the rolling pin. Before rolling, sprinkle the wheat flour over the rolling surface to avoid the flour getting sticky.

6. Sprinkle the chopped pista over the rolled surface and press them gently.  Now cut the rolled circle using the cookie cutter. I have used star shape cutter.

7. Take out the cookies using the flat spatula and keep it on the ungreased baking tray. Leave ½ inch space between the cookies.

8. Preheat the oven for 200 degree Celsius.

9. Bake the cookies for 8 mins at 180 degree Celsius.

10. Allow it to cool down completely and then take them out from the tray. Again cool them on wire rack.

       Tasty and aromatic cookies are ready!!!

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