Atta Biscuit Recipe (Whole Wheat Flour Cookies Spiced with Cardamom)
Total Time: 60 minutes
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients:
- cashew nuts
- salt
- wheat flour
- wheat bran
- cardamom (elaichi) podsseeds
- milk
- caster sugar
- butter
Instructions:
- To make Atta Biscuit Recipe (Whole Wheat Flour Cookies Spiced with Cardamom), we will first preheat the oven to 170 C and line two baking sheets with parchment paper or grease with little butter
- Sift together flour, bran, sugar and cardamom pods powder in a large mixing bowl
- Now add the cubed and chilled butter into the dry ingredients, mix using your fingers or a pastry cutter, until the cookie dough forms a crumbly sandy mixture
- Next add one tablespoon of milk at a time to make a soft and firm cookie dough
- When you notice the flour has come together and is well combined, then you can stop kneading the dough
- To shape the cookies, divide the dough into equal size small portions and roll into balls
- Flatten each ball into a disc about 1/4" thick
- Arrange the biscuits on the lined baking sheets at some distance apart
- Press half a cashew into the centre of each biscuit
- Bake biscuits for approx
- 20-22 minutes each or until done and golden around the edges
- Rotate each sheet halfway through for even baking
- Once baked, transfer biscuits to a wire rack to cool down before storing
- Serve Atta Biscuit (Whole Wheat Flour Cookies Spiced with Cardamom) with a cup of masala chai for the evening snacks or store in an airtight box at room temperature