Jeera/Cumin Cookies

Jeera cookies or cumin cookies are very mildly sweetened savoury cookie with a perfect crunch. It tastes fantastic with a cup of strong milk tea. Aren’t we Indians obsessed with our chai and biscuits? This is a perfect accompaniment with our morning or evening tea. Pretty simple to make and uses only a few ingredients, which every household will surely have. You can skip the whole wheat flour and use

all purpose flour and make it a bit paler in colour. But the whole wheat flour surely gives it a more earthy taste.

If desired, you may add some chili flakes or pepper and make it a bit spicy. Another alternative would be to use ajwain or carom seeds instead of jeera/cumin to make ajwain cookies. Please do try and share your feedback. You don’t need any rising agents for these cookies. Use white refined sugar or brown sugar or cane sugar, the choice is yours. Do not add more than 1-2 tablespoon of milk. If the dough appears too dry, add little more butter.

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour 150 gm
• Salt 1/2-3/4 tsp
• Powdered sugar 3-4 tbsp
• Butter 90-100 gm
• Cumin seeds 1 tbsp
• Milk 1-2 tbsp

Method:

• Mix the flour, salt and powdered sugar and sieve it 2-3 times.

• Roast cumin seeds for 3-4 minutes and crush it coarsely using a rolling pin or a mortar and pestle.

• Cream the butter till its pale and soft.

• Add the dry ingredients into the butter and mix.
• Fold in the crushed cumin seeds and assemble to form a dough.

• Sprinkle 1-2 tablespoon of milk if required to form the dough.

• Refrigerate the dough for atleast half an hour.
• Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
• After half an hour, take the dough out and take a ball of dough and roll it between 2 layers of parchment paper into around 1/4 inch thickness.
• Cut it in desired shape using a cookie cutter.

• If desired press some more crushed cumin seeds on top.
• Arrange the cookies on the baking tray.
• Preheat the oven at around 150-160 degree Celsius for atleast 10 minutes.
• Bake the cookies for 20-22 minutes or till it looks golden on top.
• Take the tray out of the oven and allow the cookies to stay in the tray for 4-5 minutes.
• Transfer the cookies onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
• Store in airtight containers and enjoy 🙂