Uraro or araro is a delicate powdery cookies made from arrowroot flour. They are usually shaped into small flat flowers and wrapped in tissue paper popularly called papel de Hapon. In the Philippines they are known as uraro, in Colombia as panderos and in the Dominican Republic as ojaldra.
Arrowroot is a starch powder obtained from the root of a (West Indian) plant. Similar to cornstarch or rice flour, it’s often used as a thickener for puddings and sauces. It also has a very low gluten content, so cookies made from it are delicate and powdery, much like shortbread. Because the powder is also called araruta, that may have been where the name uraro originated, thus uraro cookies.
Arrowroot cookies
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces butter
- 8 ounces rice flour
- 8 ounces superfine sugar
- 6 ounces arrowroot
- 6 eggs
Procedure
- Beat the butter to a cream.
- Whisk the eggs to a strong froth.
- Add them to the butter, stir in the flour a little at a time and beat the mixture well.
- Break down all the lumps from the arrowroot and add it with the sugar to the other ingredients.
- Mix all well together, drop the dough on a buttered tin (about 1″ in diameter and height) in pieces.
- Bake the biscuits about 15 minutes in a slow oven.
- Time: 15 minutes.
- Sufficient to make from 3 to 4 dozen biscuits.
- Seasonable at any time.
Panderos Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1/2 lb of soft Butter
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 2 cups of Yuca flour (or corn starch)
- 2 T of wheat flour
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp of salt
- 1 egg
- 2 T of aguardiante (or anisette)
Here’s how:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy. Add the yuca flour (or corn starch), salt, baking powder, and egg. Mix well then add the aguardiente to the mix. Make small balls and place them in a greased baking pan. Bake for about 15 min
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I tried the Panderos recipe. It was Great, very fine, light, buttery and you can taste the arrowroot flour and it melts in your mouth except it was very salty.
I used regular butter because it didn’t specify unsalted butter. I was a little skeptical about 1 1/2 teaspoon salt which the recipe specified. But I followed it anyway and it came out to be very salty. I recomend this recipe but would reduce the salt to 3/4 of a teaspoon (or 1/2) if you are using regular butter.
meron nyan sa marinduque sa sta. cruz ung lea’s uraro cookies the best un sa lahat ng uraro cookies.
oo nga,leo.arrowroot is kinda difficult to find.kaso,pag di naman arrowroot,i’m pretty sure that it won’t taste d same,don’t you think? i think it’s d quality of d arrowroot that makes d uraro unique in flavor.
saan ba nabibili and arrowroot?
@mommydharlz, i’m not sure kung meron nito sa lahat ng public markets, but you can try sa vegetables area.
from Recipezaar.com:
Substitutions: 2 tsp arrowroot = 1 tbsp all-purpose flour = .5 tbsp cornstarch, potato starch or rice starch
what is good substitute to arrowroot? please any comment? Thanks.
what do you use if you cannot find arrowroot? please advise. thanks
meron na po distributor ng uraro cookies dito sa Cavite, wholesale or retail. kindly email allan.manalo76@yahoo.com or give us a call at 0928505097.
we are one of the distributors of uraro cookies here in Cavite, wholesale or retail. kindly email allan.manalo76@yahoo.com or give us a call at 09285054097 if you are interested. thank you