Black Sesame Almond cookies
Delicious black sesame almond cookies (they’re so aromatic and flavorful!)
Prep time: 5 minute
Cook time: 25 minute
Serves: 12-16 cookies
Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
1 and 3/4 cup of almond flour
1/2 cup of arrowroot flour
1/2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1/2 cup of ground roasted black sesame
Wet Ingredients:
1 tbsp of melted coconut oil (use 1/8-1/4 cup if you like the cookie to be less crispy)
1 egg
2 tsp apple cider vinegar / rice vinegar
3 tbsp of maple syrup (use 4-5 tbsp if you want your cookie sweeter)
Cooking Tools:
Baking sheet
Parchment paper
Food processor
Oven
Directions :
Preheat the oven to 325F.
Pulse your roasted black sesame in the food processor for 30 seconds. If your sesame is unroasted, carefully heat them up in a saucepan on low heat for ~1-2 minutes. Careful not to burn them, before pulsing/grinding them.
Mix all the dry ingredients together. Separately mix all the wet ingredients together.
Combine the dry and wet ingredients and mix them together by hand.
Form into 12-16 cookie balls. (Optional, you can decorate with a few seeds of sesame on each cookie)
Bake at 325F for 13 minutes.
Cooking Tip:
Make sure you roast the sesame prior to use to bring out the aroma.
Because the sesame seeds naturally contain plenty of oil, I reduced the amount of coconut oil I normally use. This means it takes a few more minutes to bind all the ingredients together, though you can add more oil to make the process easier.
Stay healthy with Annie:
Black Sesame is wonderfully warming and perfect for the cold weather months. Its typical TCM properties are to boost liver and kidney functions, and I grew up with stories of how it’ll help keep your skin supple and hair shiny.
While both white and black sesame contain antioxidants that help reduce free radicals in our body, black sesame in particular has additional antioxidants due to its color, and there is some potential with both in reducing lipid accumulation in the liver.
With all good things there’s always a balance. Particularly for those with gastritis (like myself), what I read in TCM recommends no more than 1 tbsp per day as too much could irritate the digestive system. So I guess these cookies are for sharing!
Nutritious and Delicious:
Hard to imagine a dessert having health benefits, but this one manages to strike a good balance.
With 3 tbsp of maple syrup (I made 14 cookies), each cookie came out to be around 3 grams of sugar. This means that if I accidentally ate all the cookies in one sitting, I would still be (somewhat) within the daily recommended limit for sugars. (Thankfully we share, so I only eat half of them in one sitting lol.)
Using almond flour also allows fiber to slow the sugar absorption so as not to spike your blood sugar all at once. Plus, it provides antioxidant Vitamin E.
Afternoon tea and black sesame cookies in snow.
*Disclaimer: This is not medical advice and should not be used as such.