Recipe: Perfect Pearl millet cookies/bajra cookies

Pearl millet cookies/bajra cookies. Bajra Cookies/Pearl Millet Cookies/Kambu Cookies- easy, crispy, quick and healthy cookie/biscuit recipe made with pearl millet flour & Almonds. I had a cup of bajra flour nearing expiry, thought I should cookies a try and to my surprise it came out so tasty and crispy:) I followed my whole wheat almond cookies recipe and tweaked a bit. Pearl Millet, one of the nutritional rich millet. I have already published few millet recipes. Kambu Koozh (Pearl Millet Porridge) is one of my favorite.

Sometimes its hard for us to make children eat millet dishes. To make kids eat, we need to make some interesting dishes like cake, cookies etc. This time, I made Kambu Cookie. You can cook Pearl millet cookies/bajra cookies using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pearl millet cookies/bajra cookies

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of pearl millet flour.
2. It's 1 tbsp of all purpose flour.
3. You need 3 tbsp of ghee.
4. Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp of powder sugar.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of desicated coconut.
6. You need 1 tbsp of almond flakes.
7. It's pinch of baking soda.
8. It's pinch of salt.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of curd.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of milk.
11. You need pinch of cardamom powder.

Learn how to make healthy and nutritious cookies using pearl millet. Pearl millet is also called as kambu in tamil and Bajra in hindi. Pearl millet has a lot of health benefits and nowadays many are moving to millet diet skipping rice. It is one of the easy and healthy snack option for kids.

Pearl millet cookies/bajra cookies instructions

1. Beat ghee and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy with a beater.
2. Add the remaining ingrediants, mix well and make a dough.
3. Pinch medium sized balls from the dough, roll them evenly between your palms and slightly flatten them.
4. Arrange in a greased baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 180c for 15-20 minutes.
5. Once done, remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
6. Serve or store in an air tight container.

This recipe is adapted from basic whole wheat cookies. Pearl millet cookies recipe a soft buttery cookie made with bajra or pearl millet flour. These cookies needs no rising agents still comes out so well perfect for kids. Trust me these cookies turned out above my expectation as I made it with what I had in my pantry but still it turned out super. Both mittu and gugu loved it soo much that they wanted me to reserve a few for the snack box too and.