Cookies

Common

1.    The fat(butter / cream / ghee) + sweet ( jaggery / white sugar / brown sugar / cane sugar) are whisked until the mixture turns creamy and lighter in colour. (everything should be in room temperature)

2.    Add essence and mix

3.    Sift the flour and add it in batches.

4.    Mix everything using sapatula/hand to a nice dough. Add milk/water as required to form dough or as specified in the recipe.Add nuts/tutti frutti if required.

5.    Keep it in fridge (optional)

6.    Roll out the dough in to thin sheets. And cut it in to desired shape.

7.    Pre heat the oven to the degrees mentioned in the recipe and bake it for the time specified.

Note: Atta can be replaced partially or fully by maida.

1.    Atta biscuits

1.    Butter – ½ cup

2.    Caster sugar – ½ cup

3.    Wheat/atta – 1.5 cup

4.    ½ tsp cardamom powder

5.    2-3 tblsp warm milk

Bake: 170 degrees for 10-12 minutes

2.    Atta sesame biscuits

1.    Butter or any veg oil – 4 tsp

2.    Sugar powdered – ½ tsp

3.    Salt – ½ tsp salt

4.    Wheat/Atta – 1 cup

5.    Curd – 2 tblsp

6.    Water – 2-3 tblsp

7.    Roasted sesame seeds – 1 tblsp

Bake : 170 degrees for 20 minutes

3.    Atta tutti frutti biscuits

1.    Cold butter cut into pieces – ½ cup

2.    Sugar – ½ cup

3.    Baking powder- 1 tsp

4.    Wheat/atta – 1 cup

5.    Corn flour- 2 tblsp

6.    Salt – pinch

7.    Essense – 1 tsp

8.    Tutti frutti – 2/3 cup

9.    Milk – 3 tblsp

Bake : 180 Degrees for 10-12 minutes

4.    Masala Biscuits

1.    Butter – 1/3 cup

2.    Sugar – 4 tsp

3.    Salt - 1 tsp

4.    Maida – 1cup

5.    Wheat / atta – 1 cup

6.    Curd- 2-3 tblsp

7.    Green chillies – 5-6

8.    Coriander 3 tblsp

9.    Few curry leaves

Bake : 180 degrees for 8-10 minutes

5.    Malai biscuits

1.    Malai/cream – 1cup

2.    Sugar – 1 cup

3.    Essence – 1 tsp

4.    Atta/wheat – 1 cup

Bake: 200 degrees for 8-10 minutes or 150 degrees for 20 minutes

The mixture will be little runny, so I use a piping bag.

6.    Walnut and Raisin cookies

1.    Butter – ½ cup

2.    Sugar – ½ cup

3.    Essence – 1 tsp

4.    Baking powder – 1 tsp

5.    Maida – 1 cup

6.    Crushed wanluts -1/4 cup

7.    Raisins – ½ cup

8.    Desiccated coconut – ¼ cup

9.    Cold milk – ½ cup

Bake : 160 degrees for 20 minutes

7.    Short crust pastry

1.    Cold Butter – 1 cup

2.    Sugar – ½ cup

3.    Atta flour – 2 Cup

4.    Salt - pinch

Bake : 200 degrees for 8 minutes

8.    Cumin cookies

1.    Butter – 100 gms

2.    Sugar -   2 tblsp

3.    Flour – 1.5 cup

4.    Salt – ½ tsp

5.    Jeera – 1 tsp

6.    Ajwain – ½ tsp

Bake : 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes

9.    Condensed milk cookies

1.    Butter – ½ cup or 115 gms

2.    Sugar – ¼ cup

3.    Essence – 1 tsp

4.    Condensed milk – 200 gms

5.    Flour- 1.5 cup

Bake : 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes

10.  Choco walnut cookies

1.    Cold butter – 100 gms

2.    Sugar – ½ cup

3.    Essence – 1 tsp

4.    Flour – 1 cup

5.    Crushed almonds and cashews – ¼ cup

6.    Coco powder – ¼ cup

Bake: 160 degrees for 10 minutes

11.  Milk powder – Atta cookies

1.    Butter – ½ cup

2.    Sugar – 1/3 cup

3.    Baking powder – ½ tblsp

4.    Baking soda – ¼ tblsp

5.    Milk powder – ½ cup

6.    Flour – ½ cup

Bake:180 degrees for 10 minutes

12.  Choco chip cookies

1.    Butter – 60 gms

2.    Sugar – 3 tblsp

3.    Essence – ½ tsp

4.    Maida- 1 cup

5.    Cornflour -2 tblsp

6.    Baking powder – ½ tsp

7.    Mis 60 gms chopped dark chocolate pieces

Bake : 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes

13.  Cashewnut cookies

1.    Butter – 75gms

2.    Sugar – 50gms

3.    Essence – 1 tsp

4.    Flour- 100 gms

5.    Finely chopped cashews – 2-3 tblsp

Bake : 200 Degrees C for 10 minutes

Other Podi Varieties

Common Process:

In podi recipes...

1.    All the ingredients are roasted separately in the pan with little oil or no oil.

2.    Vary red chilli based on your hotness quotient.

3.    Then add salt and grind it in the mixi to get your podi

thats it...

1.    Idly mulagai podi

1.     Urad dal – 1 cup

2.     Channa dal – ½ cup

3.     Moong dal – 2 tblsp

4.     Ground nuts – 2 handful

5.     Horse gram – 2 tbsp

6.     Sesame seeds – ½ cup

7.     Tamarind – small gooseberry size

8.     Jaggery – 1 tblsp

9.     Hing

10.  Red chilli – 50

2.    Kothamali vara podi (Danya podi) – can be used in sundal and dry curry

1.     Danya – 1 cup

2.     Channa dal – ¾ cup

3.     Red chilli – 80

3.    Sambhar podi (sun dry all ingredients and give it to machine grinding)

1.    Red chilli – ½ kg

2.    Danya – ½ kg

3.    Sambar manjal(turmeric) – 100 gms

4.    Tur dal – 1 cup

5.    Channa dal – 1 cup

6.    Methi seeds – 100 gms

7.    Pepper – 100 gms

8.    Cumin/jeera – 100 gms

9.    Kashmir chilli (for red colour) – 200gms

4.    Tea masala

1.     Cardamom – 1 tsp

2.     Cloves – ½ tsp

3.     Cinnamon- 1 inch

4.     Fennel seeds- ¼ tso

5.     Pepper - ¼ tsp

6.     Nutmeg – ½ tsp

7.     Star anise – 2 petals

5.    Garam Masala powder

1.     Danya – ¼ cup

2.     Cardamom – 2 tblsp

3.     Pepper – 2 tblsp

4.     Cloves – 2 tblsp

5.     Fennel seeds – 1 tblsp

6.     Star anise – 3

7.     Cinnamon 4 (1 inch) pieces

8.     Nutmeg – ¼ tsp

9.     Bayleaves 2