Whole wheat dil leaves crackers recipe

Akki roti is one my fav Karnataka delicacies and last week I learnt the recipe and tips and techniques to learn from a friend and made it two consecutive days in full excitement. I am saying about akki roti here because I love dil leaves in akki roti and I placed an order for dil leaves with my grocer but when the leaves arrived I realised I ran out of akki roti flour. Hence this idea popped up in my mind and since I love the flavour of dil leaves dint waits to try out the recipe which was playing in my mind.

Recipe follows

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour – 1.5 cups

Dill leaves (finely chopped) – ¼ cup (packed)

Coconut oil – 2 tbsp.

Ghee- 1 tbsp.

Sugar – 1-2 tbsp.

Pepper powder – 1 tsp.

Garlic powder – 1 tsp.

Chilli flakes - 1/2 tsp.

Salt – ¾ tsp.

Baking powder – a pinch (1/8 tsp.)

Milk – enough to knead soft dough

Method

• In a huge bowl put the whole wheat flour and all the rest of the ingredients except milk. 
• Mix all the ingredients well with a fork. 
• Slowly add the milk to make a soft dough, neither too wet nor to dry or hard.
• Let the dough rest for 10 minutes
• Take an empty food grade cover with three sides closed or you could simply take two food grade plastic sheets. Keep the dough in between and roll out into thin sheets. Take a cutter and cut squares of the rolled dough. Place these squares in a greased baking tray or a silicon sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 150 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes until the edges slightly turn golden brown colour.
• Remove the crackers from the tray and place in a wire rack to cool. Once cool the crackers will turn crisp and crunchy.
• If not place the crackers in the tray and place it back in the oven for another few minutes but be careful it doesn’t get burnt!!
• Once cooled store in an airtight jar

Note : you could vary the spice measurements to your taste.

Done :)

Thanks

Chaithanya

Whole wheat chocolate and almond cookies with chocolate chunks

My boy loves anything sweet specially when its chocolaty and cookies top the list and he has been requesting me for a long time to bake some chocolate cookies. And off late he stopped requesting too, guess he thought amma wouldn’t bake as I have been emphasising on other better options of snacks recently.

Anyway today I thought of giving him a surprise and I made the cookie dough before he was back from school and baked it when he went out to play in the evening. And when he entered home he straight away walked into the kitchen to gobble up the cookie, of course I had to remind him to wash his hands. Also the little sister was also right beside him and they drooled at the melted chocolate oozing out!! He also counted the cookies and made sure he gets a fair share .. lol

In the meantime I took a bite on one and wohoo when the chocolate oozed out the child in me jumped with joy.

It was not a very different recipe from my usual cookie recipe yet I wanted to record this recipe.

Though I started off with a simple chocolate cookie it dint quite end up so.

Let me get to the recipe

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour – 1 cup

Almonds (I use mamra variety) – ½ cup

Egg – one

Sugar – ½ cup

Butter (salted) – ½ cup (100 gms)

Baking powder – one big pinch

Cocoa powder – 2 – 3 tsp.

Milk – ¼ - 1/3 cup

Chocolate chunks – 125 gms

  

Method

• Wash the almonds well and soak for about ½ hour
• Grind these almonds using milk and make a paste and keep aside
• In a large bowl throw in the butter, sugar, flour, egg, cocoa powder, baking powder and the almond paste and mix it well using a fork and keep aside for about 30  mins
• Chop the cooking chocolate into large chunks and throw in the cookie dough and mix well.
• Meanwhile preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius for 10 mins
• Grease the baking tray and scoop out the dough and place in the baking tray leaving a gap of at least an inch.
• Place the tray in the top rack of the oven (that’s what I do for cookies) and bake for 20 - 25 minutes.
• Remove the tray and carefully remove the cookies and place it in the wire rack.
• Store in an airtight container once cooled.

The chocolate remained soft even the next day but not gooey, may be I could microwave for few seconds and leave it for few minutes before taking a bite and get the oozing chocolate effect

I used organic raw sugar in the this recipe, the granules are crushed sand and not crystals or fine powder.

Happy baking!! :)

Thanks and regards

Chaithanya