Broccoli - pistachio vegan cookies
with lemon - mastic flavor

August 02, 2018

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Vegan cooking can be so creative, especially when it comes to pastry making.
The Odd Fork wanted to pinch its green broccoli in a sweet and crunchy recipe, so it created these vegan green cookies with raw broccoli florets, chopped Greek pistachio, lemon, Greek mastic liqueur and -of course- Greek olive oil.

For about 60 small cookies, it used:

- a medium sized broccoli (only the tender florets)
- about a cup of pistachios, coarsely chopped
- 2 small liqueur cups of white sugar
- 1 small liqueur cup of Greek olive oil
- 1 small liqueur cup of Greek mastic liqueur
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- zest of a big lemon
- about 1 and 1/2 to 2 cups of all purpose flour

The Odd's Fork first job was to wash and dry the broccoli. Then it cut the broccoli florets and ground them in the blender.
It whisked olive oil, mastic liqueur, sugar, lemon zest, baking soda and baking powder in a bowl and added the ground raw broccoli florets and the pistachios. Finely, it added the flour and mixed until the dough resembled a kind of thicker cake dough.
It dropped dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet and baked at 180°C for about 10 - 15 minutes.

The Odd Fork not being able to behave itself, pinched the cookies hot right out from the oven but also cool the following day. They seemed more tasty, more "ripe" after a  day.

Anyway, the cookies are now in a cookie jar for the Odd Fork's afternoon green tea. Besides, it is widely known that green tea and green cookies get along with each other very well!

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