
Snacks & baking
Kleicha joz (walnut biscuits)
Iraqi shortbread cookies filled with walnuts and cardamom, flavored with orange blossom water. They keep for several weeks and are a must at festive times.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Pâte
Farce
Spices & seasoning
Nutrition facts
1,833 kcal per serving
- Protein
- 31.2 g
- Carbohydrates
- 162.6 g
- of which sugars
- 60.4 g
- Fat
- 114.3 g
- Fiber
- 10.5 g
Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.
Instructions
- Beat the soft butter with the icing sugar until creamy and pale.
- Add the flour, cardamom, orange blossom water and milk, then knead into a smooth dough.
- Mix the walnuts, sugar and cardamom for the filling.
- Take a small piece of dough, press a hole in it with your thumb and fill it with a spoonful of filling.
- Close the dough into a ball, then flatten slightly to form a small dome.
- Arrange the biscuits on a tray lined with baking paper and dust with cinnamon.
- Bake at 170 °C for 15 to 18 minutes, until lightly golden on top.
- Let cool completely on a rack before storing in an airtight tin.
Variations and tips
Pistachio version. Replace half the walnuts with chopped pistachios for a greener, softer flavor.
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Original Ecomely recipe.

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