Arabic Cardamom Shortbread (gorayba)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cardamom (optional) or 1 tablespoon orange flower water or 1 tablespoon rose water (optional)
• 1 cup pure ghee
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 50 blanched almond halves or 50 walnuts or 50 pine nuts or 50 pistachios
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Recipe

• 1 melt ghee in a saucepan on the stove.
• 2 add icing sugar to ghee and mix till sugar is completely dissolved.
• 3 remove from heat.
• 4 add cardamom and gradually add in the flour and baking soda.
• 5 mix well. dough should not stick to your hand.
• 6 add more flour if necessary.
• 7 roll 1 tsp of dough at a time into balls.
• 8 place onto an oven tray, flatten slightly.
• 9 place a nut of your choice in the middle of each cookie.
• 10 bake at 180°c for 10 minutes, or until tops are cream.