Kolompeh (Date Cookie)

Steps Making Recipes Kolompeh (Date Cookie) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps

Kolompeh (Date Cookie) - 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. Koloocheh is a traditional Persian cookie.

Koloocheh can be prepared by wheat or white flour.

One of the region's distinctive treats is kolompeh, a soft, golden cookie filled with dates, nuts and spices.

You can have Kolompeh (Date Cookie) using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Kolompeh (Date Cookie)

1. Prepare 350 – 400 gr flour.
2. Prepare 125 gr butter (or solid oil).
3. It's 1/2 cup water.
4. You need 1/2 cup yogurt (sweet and strained).
5. It's 1 tablespoon rosewater (or saffron solved in water).
6. You need For stuffing:.
7. It's 1 cup date (without the seeds).
8. You need Ground walnut, cardamom powder, ginger powder, rosewater.
9. You need Little bit of oil to knead the date.

Kolompeh (Date Cookie) step by step

1. 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..
2. Note: make sure you don’t knead the dough a lot because it gets oily..
3. 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..
4. 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..
5. 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..
6. 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!.
7. This recipe has been published on Cookpad Farsi by Kadbaoogary. To see the recipe in original language please click on: https://bit.ly/3gxxlxF.

Kolompeh (Date Cookie) - It is also common to use pistachio powder and sesame powder to decorate this pastry. This pastry is cooked by Kermani women for rituals and holidays and is used to make local oils. Kolompeh is one of the important souvenirs of Kerman city which uses nuts. 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. Dates, wheat flour, walnuts and cooking oil are the main ingredients. Pistachios or sesame powder are often used for decorating kolompeh. Thank you and good luck