The Parents are Coming Cookies
Date and pistachio stuffed semolina cookies, flavored with rose water. Familiar to the Indian palate, yet very different.
For my parents.
Are you parent to an aspiring cook? Do you silently watch as your child wreaks havoc on your precious cookware? Do you swallow undercooked pasta with a brave smile and a word of encouragement?
In another twenty or so years, you shall be rewarded.
With cookies.
Hang in there.
p.s. I'd like to send one of these pics to Jugalbandi Click for May- theme cookies. Which picture do you like best?
Comments
You cooking minx, cookies are my weakness - there are so very many; and all have to be sampled. Date and pistachio, good lord.
You photographic minx, both of these photos are grand, but I like the first one better - the composition is better, and it is a closer shot. Unfortunately, you give up the interior shot, the crumbs and the detailed background.
So as you see, I've been no help at all.
I think its the pistachio & rose water that makes them familiar - we have those in various burfi, rabri, firni et al, right? The dates are more of a South Indian/ Middle East thing, though.
I'd go for pic #2, since it shows the filling and the crumbly-ness.
Are you allowed to crop? Cos I like the one showing the filling best, but would crop so the cookies were in the corner. Cos Aubrey is right - the comp on 1 is better, but 2 has more interest in it.
Whichever you choose, Good Luck!
In cookies!!!!!!!!!!
WOWOWEEEEEEEE!!!!
Can I adopt you?
LOL...what a lovely post. Those cookies are SCRUMPTIOUS-looking...rose water! I never knew that would be in a cookie. But it sounds like a really wonderful combination with the DATES(!!!!!!!!!!!) and pistachios.
I like the one where the cookie's smiling at us.
But they're both delicious pix.
So your parents are on their way, soon...YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*watches the cookies*
You're right about the pics- that was my dilemma, too. I've cropped the second one a bit. Maybe that will help.
The filling is completely reminiscent of gulkand- the rose jam in paan. I was so excited the first time I ate them. Its the date- rose water combination. Gulkand in a sweet crumbly cookie dough- what could be better?
And thanks for the link- I will check it out. I've never heard of NetIP, but it sounds like a great idea!
So its done! Hopefully this makes the second shot look better- I, too, think that showing off the filling is important.
Absolutely! You're too young to be my mother, but that doesn't bother me if it doesn't bother you. The more mothers the merrier. And then you can have date cookies whenever you like. :)
Now that I am officially adopted, grab a cookie. :D
p.s. Yes, they get here tonight! Can you tell I'm excited by how incoherent I am?
For the cookies- 1.5 cups semolina/sooji, 1 cup white flour, 1/2 cup ghee, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tbsp rose water, 1 tsp dry active yeast. Add lukewarm water to make a soft dough.
For the stuffing- 1 cup dates, 1/4 cup pistachios, and 2 tbsp rose water, all ground together.
I think, though, that the stuffing would taste just as good on toast. :D
Or I could just pressure-cook it along with dalia and later mix them to have an extra-fibre dessert! (I think.)
You're right about the stuffing thing- number two it is!
One problem with me is that I'm lousy when it comes to combining flavours, or knowing the correct cooking/roasting/sauteéing time for different ingredients.
The knowing comes with practice, but cooking is one of the most flexible arts out there- there is no right or wrong! I try not to let a recipe dictate what I do in the kitchen- when you play around, you find your own comfort zone.
Note that the above advice does not apply to baking bread, which is more science than art, and requires more careful tampering with. :)
That's so cool. I'm really happy for you!
*munches on one of those fabulous cookies*
I'll be 58 in a few months. Old enough.
LOL....have a great day anticipating the joy of your reunion! And say Hi to your parents for us.
AND relax and have some FUN!!!!!!!!!