Qottab, Sweet Persian Dumplings
Qottab is one of the Persian pastries that you can look for inside the cabinet of grandparents’ homes, especially if they are from Yazd. As a child who always craved something sweet, I used to stand on a chair, reaching my hand as far as I could, trying to open the door of an old cabinet to find some Qottab.
Servings: 4 persons
Calories: 65kcal
Ingredients
- All-Purpose Flour: 3 cups 1500 cal
- Sugar: ½ cup 340 cal
- Plain Yoghurt: ½ cup 30 cal
- Butter: 100 gram 700 cal
- Vegetable oil: ½ cup 900 cal
- Baking Powder: 1 tsp 3 cal
- Sugar Powder: ¼ cup 120 cal
- Ground Cardamom: ½ tsp 2 cal
- Cinnamon Powder: 1 tsp 6 cal
- Ground Walnut and almond ¼ cup each 280 cal
- Egg Yolk: 1 50 cal
Instructions
- Step One: Make your dough by combining baking powder to yogurt and add it to the flour and sugar. Let the dough rest for an hour.
- Step Two: Roll the dough and cut it with a circle-shaped object.
- Step Three: Fill the dough with the combination of ground walnut, almond, sugar, cinnamon, and seal the edges with your finger.
- Step Five: Fry the dumplings or bake them in the oven for 15 minutes then roll them in the sugar powder. Enjoy!
Notes
Qottab can go great with your afternoon tea or coffee, so go ahead and make some.