3 good reasons to make your own aperitif cookies
Reason # 1: we put less salt. Salt: that’s why it’s almost impossible to stop snacking when you open a packet of appetizer cookies. While the homemade cookies, you can salt them as you want, and even replace the salt with a spice that will enhance the taste: Espelette pepper, curry, cumin …
Reason # 2: We don’t use palm oil. In commercial cookies, the mention “vegetable fat” often hides palm oil. If it is “partially hydrogenated”, it is worse, because it gives rise to trans fatty acids, which are harmful to health. At home, we take olive or sunflower oil, that’s fine.
Reason # 3: we choose our flour. Commercial aperitif biscuits are made with very white, refined flour. We can instead choose an organic flour, to avoid treatment residues, a whole flour, richer in fiber, or rice flour, gluten-free.
The recipe for homemade appetizer cookies
Ingredients for about 30 cookies
- 200 g flour
- ½ sachet of baking powder
- 1 egg
- 5 cl of sunflower oil
- salt
Recipe
- Combine the flour, baking powder and ½ tsp. to c. salt. Dig a well and add the beaten egg and oil. Form a nice ball of dough and cover it with cling film. Let it rest for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (th. 6).
- Roll out the dough with a roller. Cut into rectangles then cut the corners. Place on a baking sheet covered with a sheet of baking paper. Make small holes in the cookies with a needle. Sprinkle them with a little salt.
- Bake for 10 min. Let cool before tasting.
3 ideas to flavor your aperitif cookies
Cheese cookies : 30 g of grated Parmesan cheese are added to the dough.
Bacon cookies : finely mix 2 slices of bacon and add to the dough.
Sesame cookies : replace sunflower oil with sesame oil and add 1 tsp. to s. of sesame seeds.
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