Whole wheat chocolate peanut cookies sweetened with palm jaggery

Have heard a lot that when kids grow up they demand munchies for umpteen reasons to follow behind it. And mothers find it hard to let them stick on to something healthier and sane. Salads in my mind in the coming days but as of now baked some cookies. Used palm jaggery instead of sugar and whole wheat instead of refined flour as usual. To add the protein content some powdered peanuts too!

Hope this will satiate their urge to munch on and curb their hunger and cravings too!

Recipe
Butter - 1/2 cup
Whole wheat flour- 1.5 cups
Peanut powder - 1 cup
Palm jaggery syrup - 1 cup
Baking powder - a pinch
Cocoa powder - 2-3 tspns
Choco chips - 1/2 - 1 cup ( optional)


Method
Throw in all the ingredients into a large deep bowl and mix well and gently with a fork or your fingers. Add few drops of milk to bring them together if you want.
Once the dough is formed, refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven for about 10 minutes at 150 degrees Celsius
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and make small balls and place it on a greased baking tray.
Bake the cookies for about 20 minutes or until you see it all puffed up and bottom turns golden brown
Remove the cookies from the tray and lay on a wire rack to cool
Once cooled completely store in a clean jar and store.


Note : For the jaggery syrup, I melt 500 gms of palm jaggery with one cup of water, strain and store and use one cup of the syrup for this cookie.
Bake and enjoy
Thanks
Chaithanya :)

Peanuts and pista chocolate (chikki? )

These days I do feel a little lazy to do the stories for my blog but nevertheless love to share the recipe for you and for me before I forget it. Anyway the story behind this  to send some small mini  treats in my kids snack box.. a chocolate treat :) Why to be only chocolate, hence stuffed some nuts into it. So following is the method, I wouldn't call it a recipe since this hardly need any measuring.

You need to have 
Cooking chocolate
Pistachios 
Cashewnuts
Pumpkin seeds
You can add the nuts of your choice too, but I primarily used peanuts ( organic peanuts :)   )

Method
All it takes is couple of minutes.
Chop the cooking chocolate evenly and melt it using a double boiler, once the chocolate is melted take it off from the boiler and then add in the nuts and mix well, You need to see a sufficient amount of chocolate floating so that it holds shape. If the nuts are too much it might not hold. . So once everything is mixed well, spread a butter paper and pour  the mixture to it, spread it well and leave it to dry. After a couple of minutes you can cut the slab in the shape of your choice and then gently remove from the butter paper.
Make sure its cooled properly and then store in a clean jar.

Spicy roasted peanuts

I love spicy roasted peanut tho some claims it is certainly unhealthy,  and I know many people who love roasted spiced peanuts. I never use to get the correct recipe until recently when my friend's mother in law shared it with me. The recipe is very simple the deal is just to know it right and get it right.

Following is the same

Ingredients

Peanuts- 1 cup
Chilli powder- 1/2- 1 tspn
turmeric powder- 1/2 - 1 tspn
chaat masala- 1/2 - 1 tspn
salt
Oil- 2-3 tspn

Roast the peanuts in oil in medium flame, switch off the flame and add the masalas to your taste. Done!

Note: If you wish to have peeled nuts may dry roast the nuts and remove the peels and then follow the recipe.

Choco chip peanut butter cupcakes

Now this recipe is totally inspired seeing my peanut butter jar lying at my cabinet which will get expired soon ! . Neither my kids nor us like the taste of peanut butter so it was just lying like that. I did try peanut butter cookies a while back , so I thought of trying cupcakes this time and it was good! So tells my kidoos who happily munched it off!

Now shall I proceed to the recipe

Whole wheat flour- 1 cup

Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence  1/2 tspn

Egg - 1

Peanut butter - 1/2 cup ( in which 2 tbspns is butter)

Choco chips- a handful

Baking soda- 1/2 tspn

Baking powder - 1/2  tspn

Milk- 1 cup

Method

Sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder and keep aside. 

Beat together the egg , peanut butter and the butter till soft and fluffy.

Add in the vanilla essence

Fold in the flour and milk alternately till the batter comes to a smooth consistency.

Throw in the choco chips and fold in again

Scoop out the batter with an icecream scoop to the cupcake moulds place with the liner.

Bake in a preheated oven for about 13-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean  at 180 degrees Celsius
 

Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack and get ready to munch on it!  

Idli with sama rice

Sama rice is not a rice, it is a millet and quite rich and healthy like most of the millets. It can be consumed the way we consume rice, I just tried making idlis with the same. Easy to make and tasty to be eaten. Following is the recipe for the same


Sama rice idli

Ingredients - 1 cup sama rice
buttermilk - 1.5 cups
Salt 

Soak the rice in buttermilk for 5-6 hrs. Mix in salt and steam in Idli moulds like usual idlis for 15- 20 mins. Scoop out the idlis using a spoon dipped in cold water. Enjoy with tomato peanut chutney.

Tomato peanut chutney

Tomatoes - 3 
Peanuts - a handful
Chilli powder- a pinch
salt

Roast the tomatoes in little oil , Blend with other ingredients to a smooth paste. 

Coconut -peanut - garlic chutney

My dear next door neighbor often offers me this chutney and I have always relished the taste of it. I wanted to make  it my selves and patiently listened to her when she was explaining the recipe to me . I realized it is easy as any chutney and can be stored for few days too. It can be served with breakfast, lunch, dinner or even with snacks and sandwiches.  Here is the recipe for the simple garlic-coconut-peanut chutney


Grated coconut - half of one coconut
Peanuts- 2 handfuls
Garlic - one big pod
chilli powder- to your taste
Jeera- 1/2 tspn
salt

Dry roast the grated coconut, peanuts and garlic separately. Once cooled, powder in a mixer along with the other ingredients.

Choco peanut cookies

Choco peanut cookies
Butter- 1/3 cup
Atta- 1 cup
Peanuts - 1/3 cup powdered or crushed
Vanilla essence- 1/2 tspn
Baking powder- 1/4 tspn
Milk- 1 -2 tbspn.. just enough to bind the dough softly
cocoa powder- 1- 2 tbspn
Sugar - 1/2 cup powdered


Method
Mix all the ingredients into a soft dough and bake at 150 degrees Celsius in a preheated oven.