This Monday (seems Monday evolved to my recipe-publishing day, ha! 😁) I share with you a very simple recipe, the one for Turkish savory biscuits. They are easy to make (you don’t even need a mixer!) and they are great as party food, TV snack or a small gift. Kurabiye is the Turkish word for biscuits, and they come in great  variety, but I (not being a fan of sweet things) most love this tuzlu ones  (tuzlu means salty, but don’t worry, they are not very salty, just not sweet).

⌚ ca. 45 min

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Suitable for: These bicuits are halal, kosher and vegetarian, but not vegan. They are not glutene-free, egg-free, lactose-free, but they contain no soy, nuts nor shellfish.

PDF-recipe for collecting and printing

Ingredients 🛒 (for 30-40 pieces)

125 g soft butter, 3 tbsp apple vinegar, 50 ml sunflower oil, 1-2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1 egg + 1 yolk, 1 tsp baking powder, ca. 250 g flour, 2 tbsp sesame, 1 tbsp nigella

How to 🍳

Mix butter, vinegar, oil, egg, sugar and salt witb a spoon or silicone spatula.

Mix flour with baking powder, add little by little to the previous mix, first stirring, then kneading, until the dough becomes smooth, non-sticky, soft enough to shape but firm enough to cut (depending on your flour and the size of your egg, you will need a little less or more than 250 g).

Separate into 3-4 balls, flatten each by hand, then either roll out with rolling pin and cut into quadrilaterals, or cut little pieces, roll them into thin cylinders (ca. 6-7 cm length, 5 mm diameter), shape by crossing the ends. In any case, don’t make too big forms since they don’t become really hard, but a bit brittle.

Arrange your biscuits on a tin lined with baking parchment. Beat the yolk with a firk, then coat the biscuits with it and sprinkle with sesame and nigella. Put into preheated oven (175 degrees Celsius) and bake until golden (ca. 10-15 minutes).