Persian Chickpea Flour Cookies (Nan-E Nokhochi )

Ingredients

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

Directions

1. 1

   Beat butter & powdered sugar together until creamy.

2. 2

   Add egg yolk & cardamom.

3. 3

   With your hands knead in the chickpea flour until smooth.

4. 4

   Pinch off tiny pieces of dough about the size of hazelnuts and roll them into balls between the palms of your hands.

5. 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. 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.