Iranian Roasted Chickpea Cookies, Nan-Nokhodchi (نان نخودچی)

Roasted chickpea cookies (Nan-Nokhochi) is one of my favourite sweets. I associate its smell and taste with so many sweet childhood memories of Norooz. These cookies are very delicate and crumble and melt in your mouth. Nan-Nokhodchi is made with very fine roasted chickpea flour (not regular chickpea flour, they don’t have the same texture and […]

Banana Gingerbread Bites

I love ginger, he loves bananas! so we both really like these banana gingerbread bites! I like to bake these in my mini muffin pan, they turn out really cute and are perfectly bite-size. A nice “something sweet” to take to a holiday party! Ingredients Dry 2 Cup Light Spelt Flour 1 Tsp. Baking Powder […]

Squash Rice Pudding

My inspiration for this recipe came partly from a traditional Iranian dessert called “Shole-Zard” (saffron rice pudding), and partly from the need to use up some squash puree sitting in my fridge 🙂 I’ve made this pudding several times now and love it! I have used both white Basmati rice and white sushi rice and […]