A simple and quick recipe for glutenfree, paleo, AIP and vegan cookies made from tigernut flour (chufa). This easy to make basic recipe has only three ingredients: tiger nut flour, coconut blossom sugar and coconut oil. Some vanilla, cinnamon and a pinch of salt, which brings out the flavors well, but those are not essential.

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

Tiger nut flour

Tiger nut flour is a glutenfree flour. It’s made from a kind of tuber on the roots of the chufa plant. So, despite the name, tiger nuts are not nuts!

Is chufa suitable for Medical medium?

Chufa is not only glutenfree, but also grainfree, legumefree and nutfree. It is Medical Medium friendly, although it’s not in the Healing Foods book. It can be a bit dry and fibrous. Therefor, here I combine it with coconut oil, and of course you have to be careful with that for MM.

I have placed these cookies in the MM category, but that is actually right on the edge. I use 50 grams for 8 cookies so that’s quite a lot.

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.

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.