Three Ingredient Ghraybeh Cookies (Middle Eastern Butter Cookies)
Ghraybeh cookies are melt-in-your-mouth buttery nuggets of love that require only three ingredients. One recipe will give you 36 cookies!
Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes minutes
Chilling time: 20 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 7 minutes minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Keyword: christmas cookie, cookie, pistachio, shortbread
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 64kcal
- 2 cups of all purpose flour
- ¾ cup of powdered sugar
- ⅔ cup of ghee clarified butter
Whisk together the powdered sugar and flour.
Add ghee to the flour mixture and blend until whipped and smooth. About 7-10 minutes.
Chill dough for at least 20 minutes.
Roll dough to a ball about 11 grams or a teaspoon size.
Press an almond or pistachio (optional) into the rolled cookie.
Bake for 10-12 minutes at 325 degrees F.
When baked, place on a cooling rack until completely cooled.
Nuts are optional.
When blending the ingredients the dough goes from sandy, to a hard dough, to whipped in about 10 minutes.
Calories: 64kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 0.3mg | Potassium: 7mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 0.1IU | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 0.3mg