Green Pea Cookies

During Chinese New Year this year, I discovered this craze about Green Pea Cookies, and I had heard a few friends raving about them. I just had to try baking some! I think there are a few variations of Green Pea Cookies, but this recipe I'm going to share is really easy, even my three-year old daughter had fun helping me!

What you need:
- 160g roasted green peas
- 40g icing sugar (you can use more if you like it sweeter)
- 180g self-raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 100ml vegetable oil
Yields about 38 cookies

Ingredients at a glance.

Step 1. Grind the green peas into fine powder and sift into a bowl. Toss away the large bits left behind.

Sift the ground green peas into a bowl.

 Step 2. Pour the sifted green pea powder into a large bowl with the self-raising flour and sugar.

Pour the sifted green pea powder into flour and sugar.

 Step 3. Mix the green pea powder, flour and sugar well.

Mix well.

 Step 4. Pour the oil plus vanilla essence into the flour, sugar and green pea mixture. Pour 2/3 first and slowly add more oil until a dough forms. The final cookie dough should not stick to your hands.

Pour oil into the green pea mixture.

Final cookie dough before shaping and baking.

 Step 5. Shape into 1-inch circles (about 0.5cm thickness) and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 10-15 minutes. Cool for at least 10 minutes on cooling rack. Enjoy!

There you go, a really easy but yummy cookie recipe! Hope you will enjoy baking them as much as I did!