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Olive Oil Cookies: Greek Ladokouloura (VEGAN)
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Olive Oil Cookies: Greek Ladokouloura (VEGAN)



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This recipe and many more are on my website: http://www.dimitrasdishes.com/recipes/ladokouloura-greek-style-olive-oil-cookies

Makes about 45 cookies:
1 and 1/2 cups olive oil or vegetable oil
3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
4 cups all purpose flour
​zest of 2 oranges
1 teaspoon baking powder
​1/2 teaspoon baking soda
​1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sesame seeds or ground walnuts

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, 180 degrees Celsius.

​Zest the oranges before juicing them.
​Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and orange zest in a large bowl and whisk all the ingredients together.
​In another bowl, combine the olive oil, orange juice, water, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla extract. Whisk well to incorporate all of the ingredients.
Add the flour mixture a little at a time whisking to combine.
When the mixture becomes to thick to whisk, mix the rest of the flour in with your hands.
​Add the sesame seeds and mix until combined.
​At this point the dough will seem wet and sticky.
Set it aside for 5 minutes and it will come together and become a very pliable cookie dough.
​Cut the dough into walnut sized balls. This recipe makes about 45.
​Roll the balls into logs and place onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Leave some room in between each cookie for rising. They will also spread slightly while baking.
Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until the cookies become slightly browned around the edges.
​It is a good idea to also rotate the trays halfway through baking. Switch the bottom tray to the upper rack and the top tray on the bottom. This will ensure even baking.
Cool the cookies on cooling racks.
​Serve and enjoy!

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42 Comments

  3. Sweta Tolani

    Mam your recipes look very good! How much does your 1 cup of flour weigh? Would really appreciate if the measurements were in grms for accuracy. Thanks.

  6. Anna Stamiris

    Thank you Dimitra, I've been making them for 40years but in logs and cut and recook and so on, your recipe is so much easier and quicker and very delicious 😋 just make a big batch today. Kalo Mina and keep well , kind regards , you are a very good cook.❤️🧿🇬🇷

  10. Miriam A.

    Thanks for the recipe, they look really delicious, but please stop saying they're healthy. They're just as unhealthy as any cookie would be. They have a lot of fat and sugar. Vegan doesn't automatically mean healthy. Veganism is an ethical movement for the animals, and has nothing to do with health. Some people are plant-based, that's where the health factor kicks in, and still: these delicious cookies contain a lot of fat and sugar and therefore aren't healthier or less fattening than other cookies.

  11. Vicki Tewfik

    I made those today. They felt wet! So i added some almond flour which was just perfect. They came out amazing. Thankyou for sharing your recipe. 💜

  15. Going Places Travel

    Just tried making them this week. They are delicious. I actually put both walnuts and Sesame seeds in the dough before mixing. I love these cookies with walnuts and the orange and cinnamon flavors are amazing together. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

  16. Florentyn Hurter

    You won't belevevit. I forgot the olive oil and it still came out great. Forgot to halve the clove so that dreaded the tongue a bit. Used gluten free flour. Great recipe

  17. Laura Kostouros

    Hi, live your recipes, I made these orange and almond olive oil biscuit, however I followed led the exact ingredients but the mixture in the end was too runny and hard to manage , should I have put more flour ? Thanks

  20. typower9

    In Morocco there are similar biscuits, but even simpler. Just flour, sugar, salt, and plain olive oil (the one people cook with)/ other cooking oils. Don't remember there being cinnamon in them. They are pale. I was amazed, having watched them being made, that so few and simple ingredients could make such delicious biscuits (US 'cookies').

  21. Nikki Komninos

    Hello Dimitra:) If I’d like to make less than 45 ladokouloura can I reduce the ingredients to half of each?

  22. Nikki Komninos

    Hello Dimitra:) was wondering if I wanted to make less cookies can I reduce the ingredients to half of each?

  23. Janie Evans

    What kind of olive oil do you use? I like a strong Greek olive oil that is great in a salad, but not sure if it would be god in cookies. Thanks!

  24. Cindy Christie

    Made these today, just quartered the recipe to see how they turn out, looking good in oven so far!!! Might try
    veg oil next time, add walnuts and a little sesame seeds!!! Good for fasting if you use veg oil!!!

  26. Deme Serb

    I love ur recipe butttttt I'm upset because u never give exact measurements.. like some flour some sugar.

  27. Halleh Garadagiyan

    Thank you Dimitra, I just made this, my dough was quite soft , i had to add 1/4 cup flour to be able to handle it, but the cookies turned out very nice, thank you

  28. Rebecca Cross

    Hello Dimitra, I have tried your recipe above, but following correctly I had oil spread from flour, so why did I have the daugh floating on oil.

  33. rula

    Thank you Dimitra,the best koulourakia recepie ,my kids love it ,delicious 👏👏

  34. Christine Moore

    Is this a dry cookie? I was in Greece this summer I had cookies they were dry and had a taste of olive oil. I loved eating them. Now I want to make in the UK ❤

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