Apr 10, 2015

Wheat And Coconut Cookies (savory)

Now I am going to post two savory cookie recipes in my cookie theme. This cookie recipe will fall under savory cookie recipes but it includes  a small amount of sugar also. That gives a salt and sweet taste but a very little sweet taste with coconut flavor. This recipe is from my mother, she used to make this recipe by deep frying the cookies. And my mother used to make them with maida, I changed it to wheat flour to give a healthy twist...
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So now let's check the recipe....
INGREDIENTS:---
Wheat flour  ---  1 cup and 2 tab sp extra
Butter   ----  1/2 cup at room temperature (I used unsalted, can use salted also in that case reduce the salt amount which I gave in the ingredients)
Salt  ---  1/4 tea sp
Sugar  ---  1/4 cup
Cumin seeds  ---- 1 tab sp
Grated fresh coconut ----  1/2 cup
Baking powder  ----   1/4 tea sp
METHOD:---
1. Dry roast cumin seeds in a pan  till you get nice aroma from them and set a side.
2. In a mixing bowl take sugar and butter and beat till creamy.
3. Add flour, salt, cumin seeds, grated fresh coconut to the sugar and butter mixture and mix till all the ingredients comes together and form in to a dough.
4. Make small balls out of the dough and press a little bit to flat the cookies with a fork and sprinkle with little grated coconut . Place the cookies in a baking tray .
5. Preheat the oven 150 degree c for 10 minutes.
6. Place the cookie tray in the oven and bake at 150 degreeC for 10 to 12 minutes.
7. Remove from the oven and let them cool on a wire rack for some time.
Store this coconut and cumin flavored cookies in a air tight container.


18 comments:

Unknown said...

Love savory bakes.. This one has an interesting mild sweetness too. So yummy

Usha said...

That is nice Padma. You made the deep fried cookies into healthier baked cookies.

Suma Gandlur said...

It is nice that you were able to convert the recipe to a baked one and the cookies must be delicious with coconut - cumin combo. It is also interesting that the coconut version cookies are savory.

Kalyani said...

Wheat and coconut ! Good combo .. If u r using fresh coconut, how long do these last Padma ?

vaishali sabnani said...

Wow cookies look very nice , good you got your moms recipe.

Pavani said...

So delicious looking wheat and coconut cookies.

Priya Suresh said...

Wonderful looking cookies, never tried savoury ones with this combo, definitely interesting.

Nalini's Kitchen said...

This is one such flavorful and delicious cookies..I love savory bakes a lot..

Srivalli said...

Quite interesting Padma...

The Pumpkin Farm said...

very interseing combo of flavors, i will try this

Srividhya said...

wow sugar butter cumin and coconut. great combo

Harini R said...

Hmm Coconut and savory? Very interesting!!

Rajani S said...

Its quite a different recipe Padma. Nice!

Priya Srinivasan - I Camp in My Kitchen said...

Coconut and cumin cookies, must be a wonderful combo!!!

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said...

Lovely savory cookie with interesting ingredients :)

Archana said...

Lovely flavours here. Padma I loved all your cookies this one is the first that I will try.

Gayathri Kumar said...

Oh! Fried cookies! They must be so yum. You low fat version looks so nice....

veena said...

Cookies look awesome Padma !