Mui's Been Busy (2 … with recipe)

Mui loves his sweet treats. If they have pistachios in them ... well, so much the better since, in his mind, pistachios fall into the "fresh greens" category 🤭

So, when he found a recipe for Siirt Kurabiyesi (Siirt Cookies), he just had to take it for a bake & taste drive.

What did he think of the cookies? "They taste like Turkish baklava," he said.

Siirt, by the way, is a province in southeastern Türkiye ... a region that is well-known and celebrated for its pistachio production. It is also home to the world's third largest pistachio processing plant.

While we have visited other provinces in the region, Siirt is not one of them ... not yet at least.

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RECIPE

Siirt Pistachio Cookies

125 g unsalted butter (room temperature)
110 g sugar
1 egg yolk
100 g finely crushed pistachios
80 g of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 TBSP vanilla extract (or to taste)
Whole or half pistachios for garnish

Preheat oven to 350F

Whisk the butter and sugar for a few minutes. Add the egg yolk and continue to mix. Add the remaining ingredients (except the flour) and mix (a rubber spatula works fine). Slowly add the flour as you continue to mix. The resulting dough is at the appropriate texture if it isn’t sticking to your hands. If necessary add more flour in small amounts until the texture is right. Use a small ice cream scoop to portion out the dough onto the baking sheet. Garnish with pistachios. Bake until the cookies take on color …. required time to bake will depend on size of the cookies … approx. 12 minutes.

Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let stand until the cookies have cooled. You can then remove the cookies from the baking sheet to a rack to completely cool.Read more