Pearl Millet Sesame & Jaggery Cookies Recipe
Follow this amazing and easy Step-By-Step Recipe to bake these healthy and delectable cookies in the comfort of your own kitchen.
Servings Prep Time
15Cookies 10Minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
20Minutes 20Minutes
Servings Prep Time
15Cookies 10Minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
20Minutes 20Minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
Preparing the Cookie Dough
  1. To a mixing bowl, add ½ Cup Clarified Butter/Ghee and ½ Cup Jaggery Powder. Mix with a whisker till they merge into each other and no lumps remain. This would take about 2-3 minutes.
  2. When ghee and jaggery powder merge into each other, 1 Tbsp. Milk. Remaining milk to be used only if required. Whisk the milk with the mixture properly to merge the milk into the milk and jaggery mixture.
  3. When all three ingredients merge into each other, add 1 Cup Pearl Millet Flour / Bajre Ka Aata, ¼ Cup White Sesame Seeds, Roughly Chopped Almonds (keep a few aside for garnishing), 1Tbsp. Milk Powder and 1 Tsp. Baking Powder.
  4. Mix well using a spatula. Mix till you get a soft dough. This would take around 1 to 1.5 minutes.
  5. We need a soft dough for our cookies. Since, our dough is already quite soft, we will not use the remaining milk. If you feel your dough is little dry, then you may add the remaining milk during this mixing process.
  6. After the dough is ready, refrigerate the dough for about 20 minutes for it to set.
  7. While our dough is in the refrigerator, preheat the oven at 180° degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
Preparing the Cookies
  1. Our cookie dough sets after 20 minutes of refrigeration.
  2. For preparing the cookies, lay a plastic sheet on the counter & place the entire cookie dough at the center of one half of the sheet.
  3. After keeping the dough, fold the sheet in half placing the folded half over the dough on the first half of the sheet.
  4. Flatten the dough with light hands. Now using a rolling pin, roll the dough. To give the rolled dough an even thickness, rotate the sheet while rolling the dough. This evenly rolls the dough and maintains a uniform thickness. The thickness should be an approximate half a centimeter.
  5. Using a cookie cutter of your choice, cut the cookies from the roll.
  6. After cutting the cookies from the roll, roll the remaining dough again and cut maximum cookies using the same method.
Baking the Cookies
  1. For baking the cookies, place butter or parchment paper on a baking tray. The butter or parchment paper should be of the size of the Tray.
  2. Place the cookies on the baking tray. Make sure place the cookies at a little distance from each other. This is done because the cookies expand on baking.
  3. Place the baking tray in the oven and bake the cookies at 180° degree Celsius for 18-20 minutes.
  4. Our cookies are ready after 20 minutes of baking. Take the tray out and let them cool down to room temperature. Cookies cool down after approximately 30 minutes.
  5. Crispy brown bottom indicates that our cookies are properly baked. Plate them or store in a dry container.
  6. Our Millet, Sesame and Jaggery Cookies are now ready. Enjoy these delicious cookies with tea or coffee.
Recipe Notes

Contact Chef: Payal Jethani

Tips: Cookies are placed at a distance from each other on the baking tray. This is done to avoid cookies sticking to each other as the cookies expand when they are baked.

Goes well with: Tea & Coffee. Serve with evening snacks.