TAHİNLİ KURABİYE

TAHINI COOKIES

These cookies are delicious, if you like the taste of tahini. The original recipe is in Turkish and belongs to a very famous Turkish food site. The only change that I made is adding baking soda after baking them several times.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of tahini
• 1+1/2 sticks of butter ( in a room temperature )
  
• 1 egg yolk
  
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla
  
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
  
• enough flour ( approximately 4 cups )

Topping:

• 1 cup of crushed walnut
• 1 egg white

Take sugar and tahini in a large mixing bowl and mix it with a whisk. Add butter, egg yolk, vanilla, and baking soda in to the bowl. Start to knead by adding flour slowly and stop adding flour until the dough reaches a hard consistency. Take small parts ( about the size of walnut ) from the dough and give them the shape of small balls and press them gently while they are still between your palms. Dip ( just one side of the cookies ) them first into egg white and then coat with walnut. Place them on a greased baking tray. Preheat the oven 350 F. Bake the cookies for 15 to 20 minutes.