Jeera/Cumin Biscuits/Cookies

In my quest to bake healthy cookies/ biscuits, I came across Sunita Bhuyan's Cuminy nibbles. I use cumin (Jeera) liberally in my cooking. I enjoyed the aroma of this spice in my Cumin bread so was eager to try out this recipe.

I have tried the original recipe as is. The biscuits come out pretty good. However, I wanted to decrease the maida and use whole wheat flour. So the next time I altered the recipe a little bit . Please do check Sunita's space for the original recipe.

Ingredients :

1 and 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (atta)

1/2 cup all purpose flour (I used maida)

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 tbsp jeera

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp sugar

6 tbsp oil

1/2 cup milk

Method :

Roast the jeera lightly. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, sugar and jeera. Pour oil and knead the dough, adding milk little by little. 

Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Roll to about 2mm thick.

With a cookie cutter (I used a fondant cutter) cut into desired shape.

Peel the extra dough away from the cookies and keep aside. You can roll it out again for the second batch.

Transfer the cookies onto a lightly greased baking tray and bake at 350 F for 15 to 20 mts.

The baking time depends on the size and thickness of the cookies. So keep checking. When the top browns slightly the biscuits are done. 

Repeat the same procedure for the second batch. Remove the scrapings and make the next batch, until you use up all the dough.

Towards the end I used tiny cutters to make tiny cookies (which, btw, bake really fast because of their tiny size).

Nibble on the li'l treats without guilt!

These cookies hop on to Priya's weekly event - Bookmarked recipes and also to Only Kid's Delight.