[Updated: October, 2016]

I always try to bake different varieties of cookies/ biscuits at home so that my family can have better options than store bought one.

Around two years back, first time, I tried my hands in baking. Before that, I occasionally bake cakes but never tried anything more than cakes.

But after I purchased my OTG (Oven Toaster Grill) then I thought, why not trying to bake cookies & bread. Initially, it was not easy to nail success recipe of perfect cookies.  But after a few unsuccessful attempts, I have nailed the key to bake perfect biscuits / cookies.

On this Diwali, I am planning to bake the different variety of cookies in bulk to distribute.

Today, sharing the recipe of jeera biscuits / cookies,  a sweet & savory treat to your taste buds.

Ingredients

• 1 & 1/4 cup refined flour
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
• 1/2 tbsp dry roasted jeera
• 1/2 tbsp raw jeera
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Lukewarm water

Procedure

1. Ground the sugar in the mixture to make powder sugar.
2. In a pan dry roast half tablespoon of jeera / cumin seeds.
3. Sieve the refined flour, salt, and baking powder and keep it aside.
4. In the another bowl, add the butter
5. Take a big bowl, add butter & sugar. Mix it well to make a smooth creamy texture.
6. Now add the dry ingredients and roasted jeera into wet ingredients and mix with soft hands.
7. Softly Knead the mixture into a medium soft dough using lukewarm water as require.
8. Shape the dough into a log and wrap it in the cling film.
9. Keep it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
10. Preheat the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper or butter paper. I aluminum foil when I don’t have parchment paper at home.
11. Take the log from refrigerator and cut it into round slices using a sharp knife.
12. Keep the slices on the baking tray and spread remaining jeera on the top.
13. Bake biscuits for 12 to 15 minutes.
14. When the bottom of the cookies begins to brown, they are done.
15. Take baking tray out from oven and keep biscuits on the wire rack to cool completely.
16. Once its cool down, store in the air tight container.

Tips:

• You can use warm milk instead of lukewarm water.
• You can replace 1 tsp baking powder with 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp baking soda.
• You can add carom seeds along with cumin seeds to enhance the taste.
• If you are too conscious to use all purpose flour then you can try with 50:50 ratio of whole wheat and all-purpose flour.
• You can replace butter with desi ghee.

Enjoy your tea time with sweet & salty jeera biscuits. If you have any query related to the baking of jeera biscuits then please leave a comment.

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