Finger Millet Biscuits-Ragi Biscuits
Prep Time : 10 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.
Sieve together ragi flour, wheat flour and baking powder.
Method
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.
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.
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.
Hi Padhu,
I have put a comment for ragi biscuits 2 weeks back by asking some doubts. Still that comment doesn't appear here. Could you pls clarify those doubts?
Dear Ramya – I was on a vacation to UK. Back only now and saw more than 200 comments waiting to be published. I will check out your doubts and answer at the earliest.
Hi Paddu,
I am very happy to see this recipe …..
can these biscuits/cakes prepared with out a micro oven?
You can bake in stove top oven or even cooker. Refer my Vanilla cake in pressure cooker
Hi, nice recipe. Unfortunately I couldn't get it right. I used ghee. After 20 mins of baking, biscuits were soft like dough but turned dark black on the edges. I can't figure out what went wrong. Can you think of anything?
Thanks
May be you should have taken a bit earlier. Try with cold butter next time as I have done.
HI Padhu,
thanks for the recipe and it looks very yummy. Can u pls suggest which oven/microwave conventional/ OTG best for baking cookies and cakes and model. I am planning to buy it a new one.
Hi Padhu,
Pl suggest a gluten free alternative for wheat flour and dairy free alternative for butter.
Thanks!
You can try with buckwheat flour or quinoa flour and nut butter.
Hi Pashu, I tried these biscuits and they turned out super yum! Thank you for sharing it. Is there any way I can include dry fruit powder in this recipe? I mean what other ingredients have to be adjusted if I add 1/2 cup of dry fruits powder? Thanks again!
You may add little powdered nuts and dry fruits, if you like. Follow the same recipe.
Hi Padhu I tried this recipe. The day it was made it was crispy. But the next day it lost its crispness. It was chewy. What might be the reason?? Anyway the taste was excellent. I also tried this recipe with jaggery& sugar. That also came out excellent. Thanks for posting this recipe.
Store it in an airtight container. Mostly these biscuits soften after 2 days. You can try making the biscuit a little thinner. Another suggestion is you can put it in the preheated oven for a few minutes before eating.
Hi
I followed the same recipe replacing butter with ghee. But my cookies did not set at all..they were crumbly all throghout looked uncooked and I landed up burning them. What went wrong..is this because of ghee.. n if I want to replace butter with ghee what proportion should it be.
Thanks in advance
Neha
Use only unsalted butter.
hi mam,
i tried ragi cookies…but i get smoke coming out of my otg….is it normal???
It is not normal. Check your OTG , there might be some problem with it.
I tried this recipe yesterday…it came out really well and tasty..what is the purpose of keeping the batter in fridge?
If you do not refrigerate, you will have difficulty in rolling the dough and it will not retain the shape. We are refrigerating the cookie dough for it to become a little firm.
Hi Padhu
I have always wondered how to add ragi to my daughter's diet, I got answer through your recipe. My daughter loves it a lot and she takes it to school as snack.
First time I tried your recipe it came out good but it was hard ,so second time I did some changes and it's a big hit. Thanks a lot.please keep posting recipes like this.
Hi what can I add instead of milk? As my kid is allergic to milk? Tia
Hai mam I like ur recepies very much… Tried many recepies and came out well…ur recepies all are with simple ingredients and easy way to cook ….that's y I like ur recepies very much…way of ur posting with pictures also simple and easy to understand… Please tell how to do home made raagi biscuits without oven….pkease
Thank you Vinithra for liking my recipes.I have planned to post a cookies or biscuits without oven soon.
Nice recepie
I just tried the recipe and the cookies turned out really crispy and tasty!!!
Tried it..it came very well ..kids loved it
Hey padhu.. just tried it and it came out so well.. so crispy. . U r a star
Hi Padhu,
I tried these cookies last evening and these came out really good.. The texture was amazing but it was a bit bitter.. Any idea why it would have been bitter?
One reason could be old baking powder or using too much baking powder.
Wat is the correct time for preheating the cooker because u told in some 10 mins and also 5 mins..
10 minutes is fine- 5-10 mins is also fine. The sand in the cooker has to get heated.
Hi padhu,
I tried Ur recipe today..the taste was good but I felt it was little soft Nd not crispy and crunchy..what could be the reason?I have used cold unsalted butter.i baked for 18mins at 180c.please help
You could have baked for a few more seconds with both the coils on in the end.
Hi padhu,
Can you give the recipe for half the biscuits. ie do I cut everything in half including the baking powder? Thanks!
You can half the ingredients including baking powder.
Hi padhu, I liked this recipe. Tell me if I can use electrical OTG. If so how much preheat time and where to place the tray? How long to cook?
I have used only electrical OTG oven for this. Preheat for 10 mins, keep in the middle rack. Regarding the timings, it differs depending on the oven. Keep an eye when baking for the first time. Once you know, you can set the timings.It will take 15 mins or more.
How many days can this be stored
For a week in an air tight container
Excellent recipe. I also added some powdered flaxseed, dry fruits, dates and coconut. Healthy snack for little ones !
Hi Wanted to clarify which butter is to be used Amul or white butter
You can use any unsalted butter.
Can foxtail millet flour be used instead of ragi flour
Hi padhu.. can you tell me the baking time for Ragi flour .. I tried and cookie was softer .. not sure if Ragi is cooked before giving my lil girl 10 mths
The baking time changes depending on the oven used. When you find the bottom of the cookie starting to brown, you can remove from oven. It will be soft but once it cools, it will be perfect.
Hi Padhu,Do i need to preheat the oven before making the baking the biscuits as we do for our cakes
Yes, you have to preheat the oven.
Hi Padhu, can table butter be used?
Use any unsalted butter.
Hi Padhu, when I used white sugar the cookies came out very well but when I used naattu chakkarai it wasn't very crispy but it was chewey! Why is it?
I have used only powdered jaggery. I don't think nattu sakkarai has to do anything with crispness. Try baking for a few more minutes.
Thank you Padhu, I'll try baking for some more time next time.
Can we steam this in regular idly cooker with stand ? Will the vapour make it more soft ..? What would be the cooking time then ?
No, you cannot steam. If you do not have oven, use cooker for baking. Check my post "Cookies in cooker"
Hi padhu,I am going to bake for first time in my otg. Wat is the procedure to preheat and bake. Is it same as u have mentioned. Please help me
Mostly it is the same. But keep an eye on the cookies now and then to prevent it from getting burnt.
Hi thanks for the recipe, I use the same recipe for making biscuits and replace the butter or ghee with coconut oil. One might need less oil so better to add it and check as per the instructions given in your procedure. I normally use little less than half a cup. I have also tried omitting the baking powder and the bidcubis were fine. Thanks again for inspiring many of us to use millets and local flours for simple baking.
Hi Padhu, Thanks for the recipe..I have tried many times of making this Ragi cookies, every time it came out so yum..Thanks a lot..Can i add small pieces of nuts into this? Will it work fine ?
You can. Chop it finely and add. It will be more delicious.
Today I tried it….it is so yummy in taste….my kids like this biscuits very much.thanju for such a wonderful recipe
Hi.. This was my first try in baking.. It came out very well except the fact it is little bitter in taste. What could have gone wrong? Thanks..
Maybe the quality of ragi flour or over baking. There is no reason for it to turn bitter.
Charm ,Charm!!
I used Coconut Palm instead but still very good.Thanks so much!
I made ragi cookies twice bt somehow they are softening after 1st day.
May I know it’s reason?
Wow!!! They turned out soo yummy.. All my family liked it.. Thank you so much