Indian Almond Cookies (Badam Puri)
Ingredients
2 cups
blanched almonds
1/2 cup sugar
2
tablespoons to 1/4 cup almond milk
1/4 tsp. saffron
1 tsp.
cardamom powder
Secret Ingredient - Hold this thought while preparing this dish - "I am powerful because I stay close to the truth and distant from doubt, enabling me to rise over any challenge and fly over any obstacle."
Method:
1. Heat saffron in a spoon over low flame.
2.
Soak saffron in milk and keep aside.
3. Grind
almonds in a food processor till
finely ground. (I usually do half coarsely ground and half fully ground.)
4. Add the
sugar and the cardamom powder to the almond meal.
5. Crush
saffron on side of a bowl and add to milk. Add the milk a tsp. at a time and
start kneading.
5. If
not able to make hard dough, transfer the contents to the food processor and
process till dough forms.
7. Make dough into two parts. Take one part and roll it
between wax paper about 3/8 inch thick.
8. Take cookie cutter and cut the dough and transfer the
cookies to a greased cookie tray or on parchment paper.
7. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes or less. Make sure you
don't burn the cookies. If 375 is too high for your oven reduce to 350F.