ITALIAN PEPPER COOKIES I SAVORY BISCUITS I EGG-FREE BUTTER-FREE COOKIES I VEGAN SAVORY COOKIES

Hi friends, savory cookies or biscuits are always very crispy and yummy bites. Here I have prepared, Italian Pepper Cookies which is flavored of pepper and cumin seeds and no butter or sugar in the cookies. So its surely guilt-free cookies… I have prepared the simple yet delicious eggless-butter less savoury cookies for Love2Bake which is conducted by Sangeetha akka from Spicy Treats. 

Category	Cookies/Biscuits
Regional	Italian
Preparation Time	10 Minutes
Baking Time	40 Minutes
Yields	12

Source - Food Blogga

INGREDIENTS

Olive oil – ¼ Cup

Black peppercorn – ½ Tsp Heaped, coarsely ground  

Cumin seeds – ½ Tsp, coarsely ground

Water – ¼ Cup

Salt – ¼ Tsp

Baking powder – ¾ Tsp  

Maida/APF – ¾ Cup 

METHOD

• Take wide mixing bowl, add olive oil, ground cumin seeds and black pepper, mix it well.
• Next, add water to it and stir it well.
• Then add salt and baking powder, give it a quick stir, following by add flour and knead it well, if the dough is more sticky add little flour and knead it well.

• Now transfer the dough into flour dusted surface and knead it once and make equal size balls.
• Preheat the oven @ 180°C for 10 minutes. 
• Now roll the balls into log, as shown in the picuture, and then make “U” and twist it like braid.

• Arrange it in baking tray and bake it for 40 minutes.
• Cool it and have a bite… J

NOTE

• Original recipe, used egg wash after shaped the cookies for brown top. Vegetarian version, you can wash with milk or soy milk. But I am not used any wash.
• You can replace cumin seeds with fennel seeds too. 

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