Walnut Cheese Wafers
Recipe: #21625
November 04, 2015
"This is out of the Greek cookbook that I gave my SIL as a gift. I haven't tried it yet but it sure sounds yummy!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (38.2 g)
- Calories 190.4
- Total Fat - 16.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 7.2 g
- Cholesterol - 48.4 mg
- Sodium - 130.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 7.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.3 g
- Sugars - 0.1 g
- Protein - 3.4 g
- Calcium - 58.5 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Step 2
Put the walnuts in a food processor and chop finely.
Step 3
Remove and set aside.
Step 4
Add flour plus the extra 1 tbs of flour, salt & pepper to the processor bowl.
Step 5
Cut the butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture.
Step 6
Mix in short bursts until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Step 7
Coarsely grate in cheese, add the reserved walnuts and mix quickly to form a dough.
Step 8
Turn mixture on to a lightly floured surface and roll out thinly.
Step 9
Using a 2 1/2 in round cookie cutter, cut the dough into rounds and place on baking trays.
Step 10
Brush the tops with beaten egg.
Step 11
Bake for about 10 minutes until golden.
Step 12
Cool and store in airtight container.
Tips
No special items needed.