On my way back from Coorg, we stopped by a tea shop where they sold saamai, kuthiraiwali, ragi and varagu cookies. I bought a packet of all the cookies and we enjoyed having tea and cookies. I wanted to try the same at home. As soon as I came back, I bought kuthiraiwali (barnyard millet) flour and made kuthiraiwali cookies following my whole wheat biscuit recipe. It turned out well and everybody at home loved it. I made 2 batches – for the first batch, I used only kuthiraiwali flour and for the second batch, I used half wheat flour and half barnyard millet flour. Both were soft and delicious. As I have used organic powder jaggery, they are also healthy. You can have it as a tea time snack or give kids as after school snacks or pack it in their snack box. Today we will learn how to make millet cookies following this very easy recipe with step wise pictures.
Millet Cookies Recipe-Kuthiraiwali Biscuits
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 20 mins
Yields: 24 cookies
Recipe Category: Cookies-Biscuits
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Yields: 24 cookies
Recipe Category: Cookies-Biscuits
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Millet flour -1 cup (use any millet flour)
Cold unsalted butter – 1/2 cup or 100 gms
Powdered sugar or jaggery – 1/2 cup
Baking powder -1 tsp
Cold Milk – 1-2 tbsp
Preparation
Roast millet flour on low flame slightly for 2-3 minutes or until it is slightly hot to touch. Leave it to cool.
Cut butter into cubes and put it in the refrigerator until use.
Grease a cookie tray with butter and keep it ready.
Pre heat the oven to 180 degree C for 15 minutes before baking.
Sieve together millet flour and baking powder. (If using wheat flour (ie) 1/2 cup wheat flour + 1/2 cup millet flour + 1 tsp baking powder – sieve together millet flour + wheat flour + baking powder)
Method
In a bowl, add the sieved millet flour and cold butter cubes. With you finger tips, crush/mix the butter with the flour until the mixture becomes crumbled or you get a crumbly texture.
Then add powdered jaggery (available in organic stores) and mix well.
Add needed milk little at a time and make a dough. Knead it to a smooth dough and refrigerate the dough for 15-20 minutes. (I needed less than 1 tbsp of milk to make dough).
Make small balls out of the dough and press it between your palms to give a round flat shape (just like cookies). Using a fork, press and make a striped design on the cookies.
Arrange the prepared dough on a greased tray and bake in a pre heated oven at 180 degree C for 15-20 minutes or until the cookies start browning slightly at the edges. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
Once it cools it will become crisp.
Storage and Shelf life – Store it in an airtight container. Stays good for a 5-6 days.
Note – You can use any millet flour to make these soft and delicious cookies. You can also use half whole wheat flour and half millet flour to make these cookies.
You will love my healthy and delicious Ragi Biscuits also.
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Wow.. simple and yummy recipe..thanks for sharing..
yet another healthy and tasty cookies! wow!!
Healthy snack
Hi Padhu, if using a microwave for how many minutes should we set the timer
Healthy snack
super delicious… bookmarking to try!!
Wow very easy and tasty
how the texture? cakey or crunchy? i am looking for crunchy cookies recipe 🙂
It will be crunchy as it cools. You can try it. It is healthy also.
ghee in what form it should be liquid or solid…
Use cold butter.
hai i am having kuthiraivali millet not having flour .how to use the millet?
Roast millet on low heat for a few seconds. Once it cools,dry grind it to a fine flour, sieve it and use that millet flour.
Hi, is there any possibilities to extend the shelf life to 20 days .
hi padhu, love your website. has been very useful to me. like you to help me on how to use your recipes in a combination oven
Thank you for liking my website,Sashi. Glad you found it useful. I use OTG for all my baking and have no idea about temperature settings in combination oven.
without oven can we do cookies?plslet me know if yes hw much time it take?
Yes, you can bake cookies in pressure cooker. For the method, follow my vanilla cake in pressure cooker.It might take approximately 8-10 minutes on low heat. After 8 minutes, you have to keep an eye and check the cookies as it might get burnt in a matter of few seconds. You also have to flip it over and cook the cookies for a few seconds.
Hi. I have a microwave oven with no conventional mode.. can I do cookies in microwave
I am not sure if you can bake cookies in microwave without convection mode.
Hi Padhu, The cookies looks very nice. you mean powdered sugar as vellam or karumbu sakarai.
You can use powdered white sugar or powdered jaggery or cane sugar.
Thanks Padhu
Hello madam,
such a healthier recipe. I want to try it.but I dont hav oven. I checked in ur vanila cake in cooker recipe. But I couldnt get an idea of preparing cookies without oven.please let me kno hw to prepare this cookies without oven. Thanks in advance.
Same method only but I will post it very soon.
Thank u for ur reply..
Hi pathu,
Can i use oil instead of butter?
Oil will not be good.Try using ghee.
Tried this yesterday with jowar (sorghum) flour and came out really well… my son loved it and so does my 2 year old daughter. but i used brown sugar instead of jaggery. Want to try making salt biscuits with jeera the next time. can i use the same measurement..
Yes, you can do that with the same measurements. You can also add ajwain (omam) instead of jeera if you like.
Hi padhu.. can I add nut powder to this recipe?? If yes pls mention the cup measurement for nut powder..TIA
Yes, you can. About 2-3 tbsp.
hi Padhu,Tried these biscuits using jowar. Came out well.
Can you pls tell me how to bake these biscuits in batches ?
Do we need to set same timings for 2nd batch as 1st ?
For me , second batch fully spoiled in 3 mins 🙁
I use micro+conv oven.
Since the oven will be very hot, you can reduce the time or the temperature a little for the next batch.
hii padhu,i tried baking fr first time yummy bt texture is like subway cookies..how i should get same texture as urs??..bw i tried all ur rice and chapathi side dish receipes it came out very well…thanks fr sharing
I have baked these cookies today using Little Millets flour, cookies really came out crunchy but I don’t know why all my Millets snacks I am making taste so bitter?
Can you please reply to my message!
I assume you are over baking it. Reduce the temperature and try.
Hi, Iam running a bakery. I tried your millet( Kuthiraivalli) cookie recipe. I used biscuit dalda instead of butter. Cookies came out well but tasted bitter. can you help correct and improve.
The millet flour will taste less bitter if kept fresh by storing it in the freezer. As it gets older, it tastes a bit bitter.
Lovely recipe, can I use ghee instead of butter and palm jaggery powder instead of cane sugar ,TIA.
Yes
It came out great. I had some millet pancake mix. So just added butter and jaggery to it. It came out super tasty. Thank you!!!
Hi Padhu, I tried your recipe but when I opened the over after 10 mins the whole thing had melted and spred on the entire sheet! Don’t know what did I do wrong. 🙁
Omg! I feel sorry to hear that. Maybe the dough was too soft. The butter has to be cold. You should have refrigerated to dough if it was soft.
Can you replace butter with cold pressed peanut oil ?
You can use coconut oil