Green Pea cookies were a big hit few years back during Chinese New Year but I was never at the right place to taste it. I never caught on the green pea fever (if you know what I mean). Ahh but never fear, there’s always first time for everything. π
Alien balls! Hahaha
Left: Green Peas + Flour
Right: After combining oil, salt and icing sugar, add green peas and flour.
Green pea dough. Following the recipe, mine was a little dry so I added another 15ml oil.
Shape dough into little balls.
Using a chopsticks, make a small mark in the middle.
Brush with egg wash for a lightly browned tops. Ready to bake.
20 minutes in 180oC temperature came out perfect. Make exactly 75 pieces.
Looking for melt-in-the-mouth green pea cookies? This is it. Afraid the cracks not! That’s one of the characteristics of green pea cookies (same with peanut cookies).
If you have peanut oil use it for this cookies as the oil will make the cookie smoother. I expected crazily filled green pea aroma in my kitchen but nah. It was just minimal. Taste good, not too sweet. Gotta say it ain’t my favorite though.
Green Pea Cookies
Adapted from Debbie Teoh (Flavours magazine Jan-Feb 2009)
Yields 75 pieces
160ml peanut oil (I added 15ml more as it was too dry; I had to used corn oil unfortunately)
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
110g icing sugar, sifted
250g plain flour, sifted
250g fried green peas, shelled and finely ground (I used ground green peas bought from baking shop)
1 egg yolk, beaten lightly, for egg wash (optional)
Method:
1. In a mixing bowl, add oil, salt and icing sugar. Mix on low speed until salt is dissolve.
2. Add ground green peas and flour in batches. Mix until you get a soft and flexible dough. (Half way through, the dough is too dry for the mixer, so I resorted to a hand paddle and later my hand)
3. Preheat oven to 180oC.
4. Form little balls about 1.5cm-2cm in diameter and brush with egg wash (optional).
5. Bake for around 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on cooling rack. Store in airtight containers.
Easy PEAsy!
26 Comments
i used to make the peanuts ones. Have never thought of trying green pea. Good idea
I prefer the peanuts cookies actually and I’ve never tried making ’em.
Love the idea of green pea!
Hi Marla,
Thanks for dropping by. It’s a norm ‘festival cookie’ here in Malaysia.
Never heard of peas cookies! Good to know this recipe, looks interesting! I am curious to try it.
Hi! They sure are interesting. Do check out my star anise cookies recipe as well. It’s very unique too. π
Very nice and thanks for the recipe. I have some green peas flour, would like to try to make this cookies rather then the flour going to waste.
Welcome. I still have some left. For CNY I guess. π
Green pea powder at baking shop with no recipe supplied is very discouraging. Thankfully there’s the internet and recipe book but of course not everyone have the means for that.
Green pea? Is it those already ready to eat type??
Hi Adeline, you need dried ready to eat green pea.
Have never tried these cookies before, but will try to make a small batch for CNY. I bought some green pea flour a while back, couldn’t find any recipes for the flour except these cookies π
Hi Shannon, happy trying π
Greenpea cookies? I’ve never eaten one before! I like peanut cookies though and they must be melt in the mouth kind : )
Really? I thought this cookie is quite famous.
Hi I love your green peas cookies, they look beautiful. I can’t buy the green pea powder in any supermarkets here, instead I bought a packet of roasted salt green peas, do you think it will be too salty and what can I do? Please kindly advise.
Hi Josephine,
Thank you for your kind words.
This green pea cookies has actually some hint of saltiness in it, so maybe you can use it. But then I’m not sure how salty is the roasted salt green peas that you bought. One way to correct/neutralize saltiness is by adding sugar.
For me, if I find the salt green peas to be very salty then I won’t use it. But on the other hand if it’s just mediocre salty, then I’ll go ahead and be adventurous. You might need to add additional icing sugar.
Actually you can make your own green pea powder. It’s mentioned in the recipe above: fried green peas, shelled and finely ground.
Where can I buy the green pea powder?
Hi Audrey, They’re normally sold at baking supplies shops in Malaysia. May I know where you’re from?
If you can’t find green pea powder, you can make your own. In the recipe above written: 250g fried green peas, shelled and finely ground
i would suggest giving supermarket, salty, ready-to-eat fried green peas a wipe down with a damp cloth.. or a quick-rinse, drain, air-dry, or put in a warm oven, as though toasting nuts.
looks interesting… never heard of this, neither have i seen green pea powder hereabouts… the real challenge is to ensure that we don’t eat up all the fried peas before i could make this. =)
Hi Kayenne, I think that could do it. π
The continually pooping up ad for cars at the middle of the bottom of the page is intrusive and interferes with my ability to even read most of this. Is there some way to get rid of it?
Can one use green split peas to grind for the flour? Must I fry them first? Thank you.
Please get rid of this ad. It makes reading your page VERY hard. If one tries to move it, one is taken to the car ad page.
Hi, Sorry for the intrusive ad. I can’t see the ad here in Malaysia. Is the ad from Chitika? Let me know so I can improve your experience.
I think you can use green split peas. Yes fry it first.
So SORRY. I meant the continually popping up ad. Please put in an edit option.
God, now for posterity that mistake will linger about.
Let me know the ad name as I can’t view it here in Malaysia. Is it from Chitika?
hi,
may i know how long can i store the cookies ?
Hi Joel, I think I made them 2-3 weeks before CNY and it lasted about 2 weeks after until we wiped ’em clean.