Foxtail Millet Cookie / Thinai Biscuit | Foxtail Millet Recipes

Want to prepare crunchy biscuits without sugar added? Try this Foxtail millet cookie recipe which used regular wheat flour and jaggery. The innovation in this recipe is the coating of fried Foxtail millets over the cookies. The millets provides the crispiness and unique taste to this cookies.

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour	¾ cup
Oats	½ cup
Powdered Jaggery	½ cup
Butter	½ cup
Foxtail Miller / Thinai	2 tbsp
Oil	1 tbsp
Baking Powder	1 tesp
Salt	1/8 tesp
Vanilla Essence	½ tesp

Procedure:

1. Dry roast the foxtail millet till nice aroma comes out. Keep it aside.

2. Dry roast the oats and allow it to cool down. Then Powder it using the mixie and keep it aside.

3. Sieve the Wheat flour and baking powder together for 2 times and keep it aside.

4. Cream the butter using your palm, and then add the powdered jaggery and salt. Mix them well till you can get the soft and fluffy consistency.

5. Then add the sieved wheat flour mixture, powdered oats, roasted foxtail millet and vanilla essence one by one.

6. Mix them well gently and knead into a soft dough. If you did not get a soft dough then add 1 tesp of oil and make it as soft dough.

7. Then grease the plastic sheet with oil and roll the dough in ¼ inch thickness sheets.

8. Cut it with your cookie cutter or  knife in whatever shape you want.

9. Take the pieces out from the sheet carefully and arrange them on a baking tray.

10. Bake them for 9-11 mins at 180⁰C in the oven which should have been preheated for 10 mins at 200⁰C.

      Crispy and yummy biscuits are ready to have with tea.

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