Egyptian Ghorayebah or Ghreybeh Cookies – 3 ingredients and very easy to put together. These cookies have a rich buttery taste and a shortbread like texture.
For this month’s Food of the World event, we are going to Egypt. I have a ton of vegetarian Egyptian recipes bookmarked that I wanted to try for today. But then I ended up making these easy-to-make 3-ingredient cookies, Egyptian Ghorayebah or Ghreybeh.
Easy Egyptian Cookies – Ghorayebah:
I met some of my blog buddies last month and I was wondering what to take for them. Then I googled for Egyptian cookies and these Ghorayabeh or Ghreybeh came up. This Recipe from Suma’s Veggie Platter.
3 Ingredient Cookie recipe:
Like I said the recipe only has 3 ingredients and is very easy to put together with ingredients straight from the pantry. Some of the recipes had cardamom, but I kept it plain. If you want add a little ground cardamom or vanilla to flavor the cookies.
Buttery & Delicious Cookies:
These Egyptian cookies are almost like our Indian nankhatai with a crumbly, melt-in-your mouth texture. They are very rich and buttery with the use of melted ghee (clarified butter).
Traditionally they are made in a ring shape with a whole pistachio placed on the seam. But I took the easy way out and made them into regular round cookies. These are great to make during holidays and are perfect as edible gifts.
Egyptian Ghorayebah or Ghreybeh Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup Melted ghee
- ½ cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- As needed Whole Almonds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease with cooking spray.
- In a mixing bowl, beat the ghee and sugar until creamy, about 3~4 minutes. Add flour and mix to form a smooth, pliable dough.
- Divide the dough into small lemon size pieces. Flatten slightly and place a whole almond on top. Place them on the prepared pan. Bake for 18~20 minutes. Make sure that the cookies don't change color.
- Remove from the oven and let cool. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
Looks so delightful and love the 3 ingredient choice!
Lydia Filgueras
I love that there’s only three ingredients and that it’s a small batch. Looking forward to giving these a try 🙂
Uma Srinivas
These looks so good Pavani! Love to try these soon:)
Diane Balch
They do look like they have great texture. Pinned.
Smruti Shah
Such a wonderful texture you got to the cookies. Lovely share!
Global Tastes & Travels Inc.
thx so much for sharing these cookies with me – they tasted so great and what an awesome texture
Global Tastes & Travels Inc.
thx so much for sharing these cookies with me – they tasted so great and what an awesome texture
Mayuri Patel
These cookies definitely look the melt in the mouth type. Interesting recipe.