Looking for easy and healthy snacks recipes? These ragi/finger millet biscuits are quite easy to prepare, very healthy and tastes very delicious. They are rich in fiber, protein and calcium. You can have it as evening snacks, in between meals, at tea time or any time of the day without any guilt feelings. You can give these healthy ragi biscuits to kids after they come back from school. Today we will learn how to make ragi biscuits following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.
Finger Millet Biscuits-Ragi Biscuits
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time :
20 mins Yields:
25 Biscuits Recipe Category:
Biscuits Recipe Cuisine:
Indian Ingredients needed
Finger millet/ragi flour -1/2 cup
Wheat flour-1/2 cup
Powdered white sugar/powdered organic jaggery-1/2 cup
Cold Butter-100 grams- 1/2 cup
Baking powder -1 tsp
Vanilla essence -1/2 tsp
Milk – 2 tbsp to knead the dough
Preparation
Grease a cookie tray with butter and keep it ready.
Pre heat the oven to 180 degree C for 15 minutes.
Roast ragi flour on low flame until you get a nice smell of roasted ragi. Leave it to cool.
Sieve together ragi flour, wheat flour and baking powder.
Method
Now all our ingredients are kept ready. Cut butter into small pieces and add to the sieved ragi + wheat flour.
Mix well with your fingers until the mixture become crumbled as shown in the picture below.
Add powdered sugar or jaggery or brown sugar and mix it well.
Add needed milk little at a time and make a smooth dough. Refrigerate the dough for 15-20 minutes.
Dust wheat flour and roll out the dough. The rolled out dough should not be too thin nor too thick. Using a lid or cookie cutter, cut desired shapes. I have used a round bottle cap. Press it with a fork as shown in the picture below to give it a striped pattern. Alternatively, you can make small balls out of the dough, press it between your palms to give a round flat shape (just like cookies) and make striped design with a fork and then bake.
Place the biscuits on a greased tray and bake at 180 degree C for 15-20 minutes or until the biscuits start browning slightly. Remove and cool on a wire rack. Once it cools it will become crisp. Store it in an airtight container.
Variations -For cardamom flavor, add 1/4 tsp cardamom powder instead of vanilla essence.
For cinnamon flavor, add 1/4 tsp of cinnamon powder instead of vanilla essence.
Check out my Whole Wheat Biscuits and Marie Biscuit Cake recipe.
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Wow!!!!!! What a nice healthy snacks????? Hats off to you Padhu
Yummy biscuits
Wow !thats a healthy snack anyone could have
nice recipe padhu....will surely try it :)
looks yummy!!! will surely try it and let you know how it came out..
yummy, will try it for sure..
Amazing recipe !
love to try, thanks for sharing
Hi Padhu,
I made your ragi biscuits yesterday following your recipe and it came out really well. It was my first try into proper baking. My kids and brothers kid liked it very much. I used sieved organic jaggery and powdered cardamom seeds instead of vanilla flavour as you gave in variations. One small issue was, biscuits were more brown at the bottom. I think if I was keeping in top rack, it should have been fine. I think it will be good if you are mentioning that in notes for beginners in baking.
I have few doubts here.
1. Can we reduce butter and increase milk, what diff it will make for the biscuits? (The reason being my biscuits got ended up in a day... :-) So I thought that much amt of butter is going inside)
2. Have u used heaped cup or flat cup for flour measurement?
3. Can I bake these biscuits without baking powder? If yes, what other things I should increase?
Before I tried Paneer butter masala following your recipe and it came out excellent. Now I will surely try your other recipes. Thanks a lot for all your help.
Thank you for liking the biscuits. You can reduce the butter a little but if you reduce it too much, the biscuits will be hard. If you add too much milk, you will not be able to shape in the form of biscuits. Another alternative to butter is ghee.
2. I have used flat cup. I will mention it clearly if I had used heaped flour.
3.Baking powder gives softness to the biscuits, so do not omit it, but you can reduce it to 1/2 tsp.
Happy to know that paneer butter masala turned out well.
Amazing.. My 9 months old girls loves it as finger good.. Do u think we can use karupatti instead of jaggery?
Yes, you can use karupatti also.