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A simple and quick recipe for glutenfree, paleo, AIP ánd vegan cookies made from tigernuts (chufa). This easy to make basic recipe has only three ingredients: tigernut flour, coconut blossom sugar and coconut oil. You can add some vanilla, cinnamon and a pinch of salt, to compliment all the flavors.

Do you like tigernut flour? Than take a look at these crispy Dutch kletskoppen with tigernut flour. Or these banana muffins with tigernut flour.

Tigernut flour

Tigernut flour is a glutenfree, grainfree, legumefree and nutfree flour. It’s made from a kind of tuber on the roots of the chufa plant. So, despite the name, tigernuts are not nuts!

Is chufa suitable for AIP?

Chufa is very suitable if you are in the elimination phase of the AIP diet. It is also a nice flour to work with if you are expanding to a broader Paleo diet. To eat less sugar, you might want to adjust the amount of sugar. But not to much, or you’ll take away all the crispyness.

Is chufa suitable for Medical medium?

Chufa is not listed as a Medical Medium healing food. Tubers in general are not the best filler foods either, although they aren’t considered no foods. Tigernut flour can be a bit dry and fibrous. Therefor, here I combined it with coconut oil. And of course you have to be careful with fat as well. So, thesr cookies are not ideal for Medical Medium. But if you are bored with other foods I would say it’s ok for once in while.

How do you use chufa?

Chufa tastes slightly sweet (but less sweet than banana flour or chestnut flour). The taste and structure is slightly nutty and actually quite comparable to nut flour. It is slightly drier and more fibrous than most types of grain or legume flour, so that is also quite comparable to nut flour.

Coconut oil

Take a pure oil, unrefined and ‘extra virgin’. A real coconut oil should still taste a bit like coconut, if not: it has been processed. My favorite is the coconut oil from White Pearl.

Coconut blossom sugar

Coconut blossom sugar is a natural, unrefined sugar that is extracted from the flower of the coconut palm. It is a healthier form of sugar than white granulated sugar. It is not processed and still contains minerals. Coconut blossom sugar has a low GI and hardly causes blood sugar levels to rise.

Tigernut (chufa) cookies

ME (Marjolein Eikenboom)

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A simple basic recipe for tigernut flour cookies. Grainfree, nutfree and legumefree. So not only glutenfree but also suitable for AIP paleo and verganfriendly.

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Total Time 20

Servings koekjes

Calories 79

Course baking & sweets

Dish cookies

Cuisine American, European

Equipment

oven at 360F or 180C
oven/baking tray
parchment paper (PFAS-free, non-bleach)
bowl

Ingredients

1 cup gram tigernut flour (ground chufa) (100 grams)
1 tablespoon water warm
¼ cup coconut oil (50 grams)
⅓ cup coconut flower sugar (40 gr) verlaag met een ¼ voor minder suiker
1 pinch Celtic sea salt or more to taste

Instructions

Prepare a baking tray and line it with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Mix the flour, sugar and salt together.
Add the coconut oil and a tablespoon of warm water. The warm water will soften the coconut oil a bit.
Knead with your hands until you can make a ball.
Divide the ball into small balls.
Press the balls into cookie shapes. If necessary, you can fill the cracks with wet fingers for nice edges.
Put the cookies in the oven for about 15 minutes. The time depends a bit on the thickness. The thicker, the longer they can be. Thin cookies burn faster. They can brown a bit on the edges.
Let the cookies cool for at least half an hour. Only then will they become hard.