3 good reasons to make your own aperitif biscuits
Reason #1: we put less salt. Salt: this is the reason why it is almost impossible to stop snacking when you open a packet of crackers. While 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 biscuits, 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, it’s very good.
Reason #3: we choose our flour. Commercial aperitif biscuits are made with very white, refined flour. We can instead choose organic flour, to avoid treatment residues, wholemeal flour, richer in fiber, or even rice flour, gluten-free.
The recipe for homemade appetizer biscuits
Ingredients for about 30 cookies
- 200g flour
- ½ packet of baking powder
- 1 egg
- 5 cl of sunflower oil
- salt
Recipe
- Combine flour, baking powder and ½ tsp. 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 rolling pin. Cut into rectangles then cut the corners. Place on a baking sheet covered with a sheet of parchment paper. Make small holes in the cookies with a needle. Sprinkle them with a little salt.
- Bake for 10 mins. Leave to cool before enjoying.
3 ideas to flavor your aperitif cookies
Cheese cookies : 30 g of grated parmesan are added to the dough.
Bacon cookies : 2 slices of bacon are finely mixed and added to the dough.
Sesame cookies : replace the sunflower oil with sesame oil and add 1 tbsp. at s. sesame seeds.
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