Recipe of Oats crackers with green chillis, thyme and sunflower seeds

Have always loved baking, specially baking cookies, sweet or savoury and today it’s a cracker which is a little spicy and healthy. Adults can munch on these without guilt, yes minimal amount of sugar and lots of oats and seeds, best had with a warm cup of tea :)

The recipe follows

Oats – 1 cup

Whole wheat flour – 1/2 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup

Sugar – 1 tbsp.

Salt – ½ tsp.

Green chillies – 2. Finely chopped

Sunflower seeds – 2 tbsp., crushed

Thyme – 1 tbsp.

Baking powder – a pinch

Milk – ¼ cup

Method

In a huge bowl throw in all the ingredients and knead to smooth soft dough. If you find it a little sticky, place the bowl in the refrigerator for a while.

Roll out the dough and cut into squares or if you are patient enough to any other shapes J.

Meantime preheat the oven at 150 degrees Celsius.

Place the crackers in a greased baking tray and bake for about 15-20 minutes until the sides starts turning golden brown.

Remove the tray from the oven and gently remove the crackers and place in a wire rack to cool.

Once cooled store in an airtight container.

Done and it’s as easy as this, bake and enjoy !


Tip: Roll the dough between two sheets to avoid breaking and then gently cut and place in the baking tray

Thanks

Chaithanya

Eggless dates cake

Date cake- Eggless

Ingredients:
18 dates
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oil
1 tea spn baking soda
1 tbl spn any nuts ( optional)


Method:
Soak the dates in warm milk overnight or just heat milk and dates for few minutes or microwave them so that dates becomes soft and help in grinding. Remove the seeds. Add sugar and grind them to a smooth paste along with the milk in which it is soaked in. Add oil and mix.
Sieve together flour and baking soda. Add the flour one table spoon at a time and mix slowly. Add the nuts and mix.
Preheat the oven at 350F. Bake the cake in a greased oven proof dish for 35-40min (or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean). 


Note : This cake was done in my convection microwave those days , will take a proper picture when I bake this yummy cake n my OTG next time .

Eggless butterless chocolate cake

Egg less chocolate cake


Ingredients 

1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
4 tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tbsp. vinegar
6 tbsp. oil
1 cup cold water


Method

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Grease an 8 or 9-inch square baking pan or 9 x 12-inch pan.

Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cocoa. Sift all together in the pan in which you will be baking the cake. Using a spoon, dig 3 holes or wells in the dry ingredients.

In one, put 1 teaspoon vanilla, in another, 1 tablespoon vinegar and in the third, 6 tablespoons of oil. Pour over the top 1 cup cold water; stir with a fork.

Bake the cake in preheated oven for about 25 or 30 minutes. 




Note : Picture is ancient :)

Eggless crunchy choco chip cookies

Egg less crunchy choco chip cookies

Whole wheat flour- 1 cup
Softened butter- 1/2 cup
Crushed or powdered nuts ( I took almonds) - 1/2 cup
Powdered coconut- 1/2 cup
Choco chips- 1/2 cup to 1 cup
Powdered sugar- 1/2 cup
Baking powder- 1/2 tspn
Milk- 1/4 cup - 1/3 cup

Method


Mix all the ingredients except the choco chips in a large bowl. Knead into a very soft dough adding few spoons of milk in between to get a sticky soft dough. Finally add the choco chips and mix well.

Drop in cookie dough with spoon or hand in the cookie tray and bake in a preheated oven for around 10 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius

My process of baking cookies is as follows:

I preheat the oven ( I bake in my OTG) for ten minutes at 150 degrees celsius, place the cookie tray in the top rack and bake for around 6-8 minutes, when you feel that the bottom of the cookies are baked slowly shift the mode of the OTG to grill mode and grill for another 5-8 minutes..make sure that the top and bottom should not get dark brown , it should be just golden brown.

Remove the tray from the oven and remove each cookie carefully ( it would be soft ) from the tray using a flat spatula and let cool till it turn crispy and then store in airtight jar.