Recipe: Appetizing Orange and cardamom biscuits

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Orange and cardamom biscuits. Let's discuss orange and cardamom biscuits. You will need the usual margarine or butter, sugar, flour, egg and the game changers oranges and cardamom. The queens of my kitchen currently. We start with blending sugar with cardamom and orange zest to infuse the oils to make the the flavour pronounce during and after baking. Split the cardamom pods and tip the seeds into a mortar, then grind to a powder with the pestle.

Orange and cardamom biscuits Tip the flour, rice flour and cardamom powder into a food processor. Chop the butter into small pieces and add to the food processor with the orange zest. Split open the cardamom pods and crush the seeds in a pestle and mortar. You can cook Orange and cardamom biscuits using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Orange and cardamom biscuits

  1. It's 100 g of caster sugar.
  2. It's 125 g of unsalted butter room temperature.
  3. You need 1 of egg.
  4. It's 250 g of plain white flour.
  5. You need 1 TSP of baking powder.
  6. It's of Zest of two oranges.
  7. Prepare 1 TSP of ground cardamom.
  8. Prepare of Flour for dusting.

Using electric beaters, cream the sugar and butter in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the orange zest, crushed cardamom seeds and salt. Cut the round biscuits from the dough and place the cutout biscuits onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Orange and cardamom biscuits These orange and cardamom biscuits are a great staple to have in the house.

Orange and cardamom biscuits instructions

  1. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer or with a fork..
  2. Add the egg and mix it again until the ingredients are integrated..
  3. Add the flour, the baking powder, the salt, orange zest and the cardamom. If you are using self rising flour, do not add baking powder, skip it!.
  4. Mix it until a ball of dough if formed..
  5. Wrap it with cling film and leave it to rest in the fridge for one hour..
  6. Dust a flat surface with flour and roll the dough until it is around 5 mm thick..
  7. Cut the biscuits with the help of a cutter, or if you don't have one, you can use a knife and make rectangles as well as using any shapes to cut the biscuits. Just make sure to keep the size the same so they bake evenly..
  8. Arrange them in a baking tin lined with baking paper, make sure they don't touch each other, and have enough space to expand. Place it in the oven at 180 degrees until the edges of the biscuits are golden brown. Approximately 15 minutes..
  9. If you want, you can use lime or lemon zest instead of the cardamom and orange version, it tastes delicious too. ENJOY!!.

Finely zest the orange, then cut in half and juice. Sift the flour, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg and cardamom into a large bowl. Place the butter and brown sugar in a medium bowl and beat until pale and creamy. Using the large metal spoon, fold the dry ingredients through in two. Make dough: Whisk together flour, zest, cardamom, and salt.