Slightly cold Saturday evening combined with friends – too much fun isn’t it? Last week an old common friend, from Gurgaon, visited us. Too many gossips and loads of fun. Cold evenings needs the company of hot tea. I quickly prepared tea and served some Homemade Atta Biscuits with tea. Amit just cannot drink tea alone, he needs some cookies or biscuits with it.
Homemade Atta Jaggery Biscuits
We all started remembering old times and the discussion gradually moved on to my food blog. He wasn’t able to understand why I blog only about baking and not the other forms of cooking.
I knew that a short answer will not work. Purposely offered the Homemade Atta Biscuits and asked our friend to give feedback on taste. I told him that these are bought from one of the most famous shops from Pune that is known for these Atta Biscuits.
I was now waiting for his feedback. Before he uttered a word, his face said all. He was like wow, these biscuits are awesome. “I bet, we don’t get such biscuits in Gurgaon”, he said. “Please can you get me some packs, I would want to carry them with me.”
Amit and I started laughing at him and he was in an utter state of “What?”
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Why a Blog on Baking?
And therefore, like others, I never wanted to throw everything I cook on the internet.
My vision was clear from day one. I wanted to encourage people to make healthy, whole wheat, eggless bakes at home. I wanted help homemakers to become home bakers. And that what I do on my blog and on my workshops.
The biscuits you just ate are not market bought, they are homemade atta biscuits. These biscuits are made with clarified butter (pure desi ghee) and jaggery. There is no white sugar, there no maida, no chemical, and no preservative.
My friend heard all of this and was in utter shock. What? No sugar? No Maida? Atta Biscuits? He was completely zapped. Bhabhi, I am a great fan of your Whole Wheat Brownies and Fudgy Walnut Brownie, but I never knew that homemade atta biscuits could taste so amazing.
Yes, this is what home baking can do.
“But are their folks who understand the benefits of home baking”, he asked. “Is India even ready to take up Baking?
I told him that there is no easy answer to this and I will take this up some other time in detail.
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A feeling of satisfaction
My friend had honest and logical questions. I know it is a difficult journey and I am enjoying it. I will continue to spread awareness of healthy baking and people will gradually understand. There is already a lot of noise in the space of healthy eating.
He had a joyful smile on his face and glittering eyes. “It’s your passion towards baking that will help you create your own space. Good Luck” and he left our home with so much encouragement in me.
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Let's make the Homemade Atta Biscuits
Here we start with the jaggery biscuits recipe. I have used Whole Wheat Flour and Organic Jaggery Powder for this recipe. Before using the dry ingredients, I sifted them separately.
In a bowl take flour, jaggery powder, salt, and baking powder and mix all the dry ingredients.
Add clarified butter to the dry ingredients. Make sure the clarified butter you are using is at room temperature but not melted one. Now using your fingertips mix clarified butter with dry ingredients. It will look like breadcrumbs.
Add approximately 2 tablespoons of milk and bind the dough. Every flour has different absorption capacity. If you feel your dough is dry, add 1 tablespoon of milk extra.
Do not knead it more else it will form gluten and result will be chewy cookies.
Meanwhile, keep the oven for preheating at 160 °C.
Take a butter paper and transfer the dough to it. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into an even sheet of a ½ inch thickness.
Don’t worry if you don’t have any cookie cutter. Use any bottle cap to cut the same shape and even size cookies.
Let’s Bake
Arrange all the cookies on a greased baking tray leaving some space in-between. Bake these cookies in a preheated oven at 160 °C for 15-18 minutes or until the edges turn golden.
Once baked, take the tray out from the oven and transfer all the baked cookies to a wired rack.
Your Atta Jaggery Cookies with all the goodness of jaggery and clarified butter (ghee) are ready to serve.
Microwave Convection users
You can bake these cookies at 150 °C for 15 minutes.
Without Oven Baking
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Eggless Atta Biscuits with Jaggery
Step-by-step recipe of Homemade Atta Biscuits. Learn how to make biscuits at home and make delicious Atta Biscuits with Jaggery and Clarified Butter (Ghee). No Sugar.
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Hi mam,
My daughter loves to eat cookies. So I plan to follow your recipe. Mam one doubt please share the Amazon link to buy jaggery powder. So that I can use the same one that u have used in your recipe.
Thanks in Advance
Hello Gayathri,
Sure, will try to add.
Ma’am I baked at 160 degree and cookies burnt in 10mins…I tried another recipe same happened -they burn from bottom…upper crust isn’t fully crusty..please help what is the issue..🙏
Hi Geetanjali,
Please check your oven’s temperature.
Hello mam…I want to try this whole wheat jaggery cookies…but don’t have weighing scale ..as u gave quantity of ingredients….plz help…
Buy a kitchen weighing scale if you really want to make perfect bakes.
Hey the recipe is amazing! Want to try it tomorrow. Just one query, what can I use instead of baking powder or baking soda since I don’t have both.
Sorry, there is no alternate.
Hi Sonia, thanks for sharing this recipe, planning to try it today. I saw your pictures, yours baking tray is of steel i suppose, mine is of black colour (not sure of which metal). Any suggestions for baking temperature for mine tray, also i do not have parchment paper and can not arrange in lock down. Thank you dear.
You can line your tray with parchment paper if it’s of black colour else your cookies can burn.
The recipe is very healthy
Awesome mam .No words to say
Thank you mam for sharing such an easy and healthy biscuit recipe of biscuit. Will try them for sure!!! Just one query….can we add or substitute ragi flour here in the recipe. Want to make ragi biscuits for my baby.
Monika,
I already have a recipe of Ragi cookies on my blog, try that. Here is the link to that
https://anybodycanbake.com/ragi-cookies-with-jaggery-no-sugar/
Happy Baking!
Sonia
How can we opt for your baking courses ?
What all is included in that ?
Priyam,
You can check all my courses(Online and Offline) on my blog only.
Happy Baking!
Sonia
Hi i dont hsvr baking powder can i use baking soda
Both are completely different and are not interchangeable.
Thanks
Sonia
Thanks for this wonderful and healthy cookie recipe. I made it and it turned out very yummy. I feel the cookies have not been evenly baked. Minimum temperature of my convection is 180 and I baked it 15 mins one side and approx 8 mins other side
How can we check the eveness of baking ?
Hi Priyam,
In general baking in MW convection is even baking. Keep the size and thickness even to get evenly baked cookies.
Happy Baking!
Sonia
My convection takes 180′ C as min temp. For how long shud I bake d cookies.
Bake for 12-15 min or until edges turn golden brown.
Happy Baking!
Can I use baking soda expect of baking powder?
Anabiya, baking soda and baking powder are not interchangeable.
I love biscuts.all age peoples will be like biscust.thanks for sharing your information
Thanks for appreciating!
Sonia
Hi mam. I tried out this recipe today and it turned out awesome! Everyone appreciated it! Thank you so much for the recipe mam. Now i can finally have guilt free biscuits with my morning tea 🙂 Also is it possible to switch ghee with avocado for this recipe? Would it affect the crispiness of the biscuit? Please let me know if u have tried that. Love your healthy recipes please keep posting <3
Hi Fareeda,
Thank you so much for sharing your lovely feedback with me. It made my day.
Fareeda, I haven’t tried avocado in my cookies yet. But let me experiment and share on my blog. Stay connected.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Very tempting n simple, will try definitely
Thank You Annapurna.
Hi with all these ingredients instead of cookie cutter can I use cookie press, what would b added or deleted for it, I want to make eggless cookies.
Roopa, you can use cookie cutter or cookie press. No need to make any change to the recipe.
Happy Baking,
Sonia
Dear Sathya,
All my recipes are on my blog. So please go ahead and browse them.
As far as healthy desserts are concerned, I have a complete online course for the same. You can check the course here: https://academy.anybodycanbake.com/product/everyday-cakes-and-muffins/
– Sonia
Hi Sonia,
I tried your recepie today and the dough was too crumbly, even after adding 3 table spoons of milk. I read in other blog of yours that the amount of liquid depends on the flour as well. Can you tell me how it should feel to touch after combining all ingredients? It was difficult to roll out the dough as it kept falling apart.
All other ingridents I added as you mentioned using weighing scale.
Hello Shreya,
Since it has whole wheat and Jaggery as the ingredients, and both the ingredients are difficult to bind, it will be difficult to shape the cookie. I generally use parchment paper and roll my dough between the layers.
– Sonia
Hi Sonia,
Awesome recipe. Want to try it. What is jaggery powder? i have brown sugar and the round jaggery. did you want me to powder that jaggery ball for this recipe?
Dear Ramya,
Check this link for Jaggery Powder: https://amzn.to/2V3O16h
– Sonia
Hi,
Great blog and thanks for the healthy recipes.
I see that you have given grams for all ingredients. I dont have food weighing machine. How to convert into cups?
Thanks for your kinds words Tejaswni.
Baking needs accuracy and for that, I prefer to use a weighing scale. However, you can use this conversion chart that will solve your purpose.
https://anybodycanbake.com/conversion-table/
Happy Baking
Sonia
Awesome wheat cookies, very simple recipe, easy to do, taste awesome. In my convection oven it took 160 degree Celsius 18 minutes, and reduced to 150 degree in Celsius baked for 5 mins. Came perfect. Thank you so much Sonia for a wonderful healthy cookies. I think I will gonna to try all your recipes.
Hi Archana,
Thanks for sharing your feedback with us.
All my recipes are tried and tested. You can try any and share the feedback as well as suggestions (if any) with us.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Hai I am Archana, trying your recipe after baked I will let you know how was it
Sure Archana, We will wait for your feedback.
Thank you
Sonia
Hi Sonia,
Is there a way v can use honey instead of Jaggery powder.
Kiran
No. Remember, Jaggery powder is dry and Honey is liquid. It will impact the recipe.
Hey Sonia,
You have a wonderful page, full of goodies that are drool-worthy! 🙂
I am interested in trying out these atta biscuits and went through your recipe. I saw this step – “Wrap the dough using clingwrap and refrigerate for 30mins” in most other cookie recipes, but not this one. Is this step not required here?
Thank you in advance for going through my question and your patience in answering that for me.
Yes Sowmya,
It is not required in this recipe.
Regards
Sonia
Butter and sugar creaming process not required?(I want to use butter and sugar)
Tejashree, You may feel free to make changes according to your wish, however, I will not be able to guarantee the outcome.
Every recipe is designed for a specific purpose. This recipe is for those who need healthy version.
Regards
Sonia
Hi mam.. thanks for the wonderful recipe.. I tried the same with my traditional idli cooker and followed all the instructions to T.. my biscuits took a little more than 20 mins to get baked. The top layer ie the biscuits on top plate came out well but the second layer got fully burnt.. can I please know how to overcome this and bake 2 layers at the same time in idli cooker ? Thanks in advance
Hello Kavya,
Try the following two things.
1. Bake at the lowest flame.
2. If the Idli Maker height is low, switch the second and top layer with each other after 10 minutes of baking.
Regards
Sonia
How long can we keep them…..what is proper storage?????
Hello Anil,
I stay in Pune and at my place, they stay good for a month. I store them in an airtight container.
Regards
Sonia
Hi can I use coco powder to it and pipe it.
Hello Kavitha, I think I have not understood your question properly. Please elaborate.
-Sonia
wow…I was looking for such recipe..n wud definitely try it…can i bake 2 trays at a time.
thanks mam
Hello Vidhi,
If you have an oven with capacity 60L or more then yes you can, otherwise no.
Regards
Sonia
Looks tempting would love to try, should I place the tray of cookies in the bottom rack or middle, I have an OTG
Hi Lakshmi,
Please use the middle rack.
– Sonia