Kolompeh (Date Cookie). One of the region's distinctive treats is kolompeh, a soft, golden cookie filled with dates, nuts and spices. Bakers use special stamps to create patterns in the dough. Kolompeh is a traditional pastry from Kerman, Iran. They are flaky, tender, and delicate. These gorgeous cookies are individually stamped, decorated by hand and are made from fresh ingredients with NO added sugar, the sweetness is savored from organic Medjool dates; making them a super healthy choice for your afternoon snack or on the go breakfast.
To describe them in one word, we should say.
Kolompeh is an Iranian pastry baked in Kerman.
Kolompeh looks like a pie with a mixture of minced dates with cardamom powder and other flavoring inside.
You can cook Kolompeh (Date Cookie) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Kolompeh (Date Cookie)
- Prepare 350 of – 400 gr flour.
- Prepare 125 gr of butter (or solid oil).
- It's 1/2 cup of water.
- You need 1/2 cup of yogurt (sweet and strained).
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of rosewater (or saffron solved in water).
- It's of For stuffing:.
- You need 1 cup of date (without the seeds).
- It's of Ground walnut, cardamom powder, ginger powder, rosewater.
- It's of Little bit of oil to knead the date.
Dates, wheat flour, walnuts and cooking oil are the main ingredients. Pistachios or sesame powder are often used for decorating kolompeh. Koloocheh is a traditional Persian cookie. Koloocheh is a delicacy and was usually made for a special occasion such as the Norooz celebration.
Kolompeh (Date Cookie) step by step
- Mix the butter with yogurt, water and rosewater and add the flour gradually to your mixture to make your dough. Knead the dough little bit with your fingers to get solid and don’t stick to your hand..
- Note: make sure you don’t knead the dough a lot because it gets oily..
- Put the dough in the freezer bag and rest it in the refrigerator for half an hour. During this time, core the dates and knead them until they soften, then add the rest of the stuffing ingredients to it and make balls the size of a walnut..
- Take the dough out of the refrigerator and make balls bigger than the date balls from the dough. Then flatten the dough balls in our hands and put a date ball in the middle of each..
- Cover the dates completely with the dough so that there are no seams and cracks in the dough, then spread it with a little hand pressure, wrap its edges and put it in the oven tray..
- No need for baking paper and greasing the tray. Just sprinkle a little bit flour on the tray. Then bake the cookies for around 30 minutes in the oven (180 C) until they get little bit gold from down. Bon Apetit!.
- This recipe has been published on Cookpad Farsi by Kadbaoogary. To see the recipe in original language please click on: https://bit.ly/3gxxlxF.
Koloocheh can be prepared by wheat or white flour. Kolompeh is a traditional date filled walnut cookie from Kerman, Iran. What makes Kolompeha super healthy snack is the fact that is made with all-natural ingredients, sweetened with organic Medjool dates, and has no added sugar or preservatives. These freshly baked cookies are tender, flaky, fragrant with saffron, using a recipe that has been in my family for generations. Kolompeh is a traditional date filled walnut cookie from Kerman, Iran.