Recipe - Go Healthy With Bajra Cookies

Pearl millet known as bajra in Hindi and Kambu in tamil, made to cookies with bajra flour. A gluten free cookies with simple ingredients like ghee (clarified butter), sugar and cardamom.

I just loved it and wanted to try myself baking it. I read the ingredients and wanted to note it down, but forgot as usual. Still last week when I went for grocery shopping, took this pack of bajra flour from mustafa. Today I wanted to try and post bajra millet cookies. I adapted the same recipe I used for making nankatai. I was not sure if the cookies will be in shape or would spread out. And it turned out really tasty and crisp just like the nan katai I made, except that this one is gluten free. Perfect for your kids snack box too.

Ingredients

pearl millet flour (Bajra/ kambu) – 1 cup
Ghee – 1/4 cup plus as needed
sugar – 1/4 cup, heaped
salt – 1/4 tsp
Cardamom – 1
Baking powder –1/4 tsp

Method

* Pre heat oven at 190 deg C. Mean while, powder sugar with cardamom and salt.

* In a mixing bowl, mix pearl millet flour, above powdered sugar mixture and baking powder well.

* Add 1/4 cup ghee little by little as you keep mixing in a rubbing way.

* You may need more ghee, so keep it handy. It may take 1 or 2 tbsp of ghee more. You need a dough that is stiff as well as without cracks. No water or milk needed, just make dough with ghee.

* Divide into 10 equal sized balls, flatten slightly.

* Arrange in a tray lined with butter paper and dust it with flour.Flatten the divided balls to cookies, no need to flatten lot, just a little.

* Bake at 190 deg C for 14- 15 minutes. Once done, cool over wire rack.