Oil and Egg Free Okara Biscotti
- 100 grams Fresh okara
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 50 to 70 grams Sugar
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 40 grams Milk
- 1 as deisred Your choice of flavoring, such as black tea, sesame seeds, aonori, cocoa powder, or green tea powder
- In a large plastic bag, combine the cake flour, sugar, and baking powder while weighing the ingredients in.
- If you are adding flavoring ingredients, add them at this point.
- Seal the bag with some air still inside, and mix well.
- Once the ingredients are well combined, add the okara and mix again, crushing the lumps.
- Gradually add the milk and bring the dough together until it's not too sticky.
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Line a cookie sheet with a piece of parchment paper.
- Place the dough on the cookie sheet and shape it into a roughly 12 x 25 cm rectangular loaf with a 1.5-2 cm thickness.
- Bake it in oven at 180C for 20-25 minutes.
- After about 20 minutes, the surface should be lightly browned.
- Remove it from the oven, take out the parchment paper, and place the loaf on a cooling rack.
- Once it cools down, slice into 5 mm thick pieces.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 160C.
- Line the pieces on the baking tray and bake at 160C for 10 minutes.
- Turn them over and bake another 10 minutes.
- Take them out of the oven and cool them on a rack.
- If they don't harden, microwave at 500 W in 30 second intervals while checking the consistency.
- Cool them on a rack.
- Once they are completely cooled, place them in an airtight container (or a bag) and store them.
- Variety 1 -- Black Tea Biscotti: Add 10 g of finely ground tea leaves, as fine as the leaves in a tea bag.
- I recommend Earl Grey.
- Variety 2 -- Cheese Biscotti: Add 15 g of grated cheese, 15 g of sugar, and a pinch of salt.
- Add some garlic powder also, if desired.
- Variety 3 -- Aonori Biscotti: Add 2 tablespoons of aonori, two pinches of salt, and 15 g of sugar.
- Variety 4 -- Green tea biscotti: Add 10 g of green tea powder.
- Its bitter-sweet flavor is satisfying for adult palates.
- Variety 5 -- Cocoa Biscotti: Add 15 g of pure cocoa powder.
- It's better to add a lot of sugar.
- This is a favorite for kids.
- Variety 6 -- Black Sesame Seed Biscotti: Add 20 g of black sesame seeds.
- They can either be roasted or grounded, or even half and half.
- Variety 7 -- Kinako (Soy Flour) Biscotti: Add 20 g of kinako.
- Variety 13 -- Consomme Biscotti: Dissolve 1 cube or 5 g of consomme soup stock granules in a small amount of water, and add to the dough.
- Add 15 g of sugar and no salt.
fresh okara, flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, black tea
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/144123-oil-and-egg-free-okara-biscotti (may not work)