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Millet Cookies Recipe-Kuthiraiwali Biscuits-Healthy Snacks Recipe

March 23, 2015 by PadhuSankar 46 Comments

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

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

   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.

preparing millet biscuits

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).

How to make Millet Cookies

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.

Millet Cookies Recipe

Once it cools it will become crisp.

Storage and Shelf life – Store it in an airtight container. Stays good for a 5-6 days.

barnyard millet cookies-Kuthiraiwali biscuits

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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Comments

  1. saranya

    March 23, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Wow.. simple and yummy recipe..thanks for sharing..

    Reply
  2. nandoos Kitchen

    March 23, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    yet another healthy and tasty cookies! wow!!

    Reply
  3. SPriya Shan

    March 23, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Healthy snack

    Reply
  4. ANU

    March 24, 2015 at 3:50 am

    Hi Padhu, if using a microwave for how many minutes should we set the timer

    Reply
  5. SPriya Shan

    March 24, 2015 at 8:55 am

    Healthy snack

    Reply
  6. Nivedhanams Sowmya

    March 24, 2015 at 10:14 am

    super delicious… bookmarking to try!!

    Reply
  7. Rekha Pai

    March 26, 2015 at 8:27 am

    Wow very easy and tasty

    Reply
  8. nur anis Kamam

    April 24, 2015 at 4:40 am

    how the texture? cakey or crunchy? i am looking for crunchy cookies recipe 🙂

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      April 28, 2015 at 12:44 pm

      It will be crunchy as it cools. You can try it. It is healthy also.

      Reply
  9. Sushma R.K

    July 16, 2015 at 5:58 am

    ghee in what form it should be liquid or solid…

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 16, 2015 at 8:06 am

      Use cold butter.

      Reply
  10. sara

    October 27, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    hai i am having kuthiraivali millet not having flour .how to use the millet?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      October 30, 2015 at 4:50 am

      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.

      Reply
  11. Vignesh C

    November 15, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    Hi, is there any possibilities to extend the shelf life to 20 days .

    Reply
  12. Sashi

    November 23, 2015 at 7:56 am

    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

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      November 24, 2015 at 5:38 am

      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.

      Reply
  13. Unknown

    January 7, 2016 at 4:45 am

    without oven can we do cookies?plslet me know if yes hw much time it take?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      January 7, 2016 at 7:16 am

      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.

      Reply
  14. samu bhuvan

    July 6, 2016 at 7:06 am

    Hi. I have a microwave oven with no conventional mode.. can I do cookies in microwave

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 7, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      I am not sure if you can bake cookies in microwave without convection mode.

      Reply
  15. Mallika Ramasamy

    July 14, 2016 at 2:51 am

    Hi Padhu, The cookies looks very nice. you mean powdered sugar as vellam or karumbu sakarai.

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      July 15, 2016 at 9:41 am

      You can use powdered white sugar or powdered jaggery or cane sugar.

      Reply
    • Mallika Ramasamy

      July 15, 2016 at 3:52 pm

      Thanks Padhu

      Reply
  16. Unknown

    September 6, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      September 7, 2016 at 8:00 am

      Same method only but I will post it very soon.

      Reply
    • Unknown

      September 7, 2016 at 5:33 pm

      Thank u for ur reply..

      Reply
  17. ilearner

    October 11, 2016 at 1:35 am

    Hi pathu,

    Can i use oil instead of butter?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      October 11, 2016 at 8:07 am

      Oil will not be good.Try using ghee.

      Reply
  18. Unknown

    November 16, 2016 at 6:43 pm

    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..

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      November 17, 2016 at 5:26 am

      Yes, you can do that with the same measurements. You can also add ajwain (omam) instead of jeera if you like.

      Reply
  19. Janani Thirumoorthy

    December 16, 2016 at 5:05 am

    Hi padhu.. can I add nut powder to this recipe?? If yes pls mention the cup measurement for nut powder..TIA

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      December 16, 2016 at 8:44 am

      Yes, you can. About 2-3 tbsp.

      Reply
  20. Vani

    February 3, 2018 at 7:43 am

    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.

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      February 3, 2018 at 10:07 am

      Since the oven will be very hot, you can reduce the time or the temperature a little for the next batch.

      Reply
  21. Kanduri Abi

    May 17, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    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

    Reply
  22. Sowjanya

    December 10, 2018 at 1:12 am

    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!

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      December 10, 2018 at 11:18 am

      I assume you are over baking it. Reduce the temperature and try.

      Reply
  23. Unknown

    February 8, 2019 at 11:33 am

    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.

    Reply
  24. Unknown

    April 28, 2019 at 6:53 am

    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.

    Reply
  25. Shubhangi

    June 23, 2019 at 2:12 am

    Lovely recipe, can I use ghee instead of butter and palm jaggery powder instead of cane sugar ,TIA.

    Reply
    • PadhuSankar

      June 23, 2019 at 8:31 am

      Yes

      Reply
  26. Vel

    July 22, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    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!!!

    Reply
  27. Neha

    January 4, 2022 at 9:35 pm

    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. 🙁

    Reply
    • PadhuSankar

      January 5, 2022 at 10:33 am

      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.

      Reply
  28. Priya Chandrasekar

    February 20, 2022 at 8:34 am

    Can you replace butter with cold pressed peanut oil ?

    Reply
    • PadhuSankar

      February 23, 2022 at 11:27 am

      You can use coconut oil

      Reply

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