Ingredients:

4 cups rice flour (500 g)

1 cup powdered sugar

1 1/4 Ghee or butter (250 g)

1 egg

1/2 cup Rose water

Dash Powdered Cardamom

Ground Pistachio or Khorfeh for garnish

 

Directions:

In a large bowl, cream together the ghee or butter, sugar and cardamom.

Add the Rose water and mix well. 

Add the Rice flour slowly to butter cream until incorporated.

Cover and place the dough in the refrigerator for 5 hours.

Before forming cookies preheat oven to 300°F.

Make walnut size balls of the dough and flatten it slightly by your finger and create shapes on top surface of them by small cookie cutters.

Garnish cookies with ground Pistachio or Khorfeh.

Bake the cookies in the oven for 15- 20 minuets. The cookies color should not change very much.

The cookies should be cool before removing from the sheets.

 Notes:

This cookie is one the most popular traditional cookies baked by Iranian for New Year celebrations (Nowruz)

You can add some drop of saffron soaked in water to make yellow cookies.