Flaky whole wheat vegetable cookies with gram flour are tender cookies that include the vegetables like carrot and peas. These vegetable cookies get additional flavor from the cumin seeds besides the blended flavor of vegetables with gram flour.
This vegetable cookies recipe is sugarless, with whole wheat and gram flour. All this makes these cookies extremely healthy and. Use these vegetable cookies for kids tiffin and in between lunch snacking. A great way to avoid eating junk.
Replace these veg cookies with the regular cookies from your tea time and find that extra flab shedding away. Isn’t it a great way to cut those extra calories that you eat without knowing? And if you like eating cakes and worried about extra calories in cakes, then you must try my savory spicy semolina cake and vegetable semolina muffins.
|Must Try: Exotic Eggless Karachi Biscuits
Want to get growing?
Starting and growing a business can be hard, and sometimes you might feel stuck. Our weekly newsletter gets delivered to over 30,000 people each week to help them grow. We'd love to help you, too. Subscribe now, it's free.
We respect your privacy and promise to only send you the freshest baking news. No spam, ever. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Quick Notes
Tin Size | Baking Tray |
Oven Temp | 160° C |
Baking Time | 15 - 18 minutes |
MW Convection Temp | 150° C |
Baking Time | 15 - 18 minutes |
Demold Instructions | Immediately |
Cooling Time | 15 minutes |
I have curated the list of recommended tools and ingredients for baking. I recommend only tried and tested products that have given satisfactory results in my kitchen.
If you bake this recipe, please share a picture with me on my Instagram using #bakewithsonia
The choice of ingredients for this recipe is different from my other cookie recipes. Not only these cookies are diabetic friendly but are healthy too. These cookies can be a perfect partner for your munching time. All you need to read the recipe and try.
I recommend measuring ingredients on a kitchen weighing scale. This helps to be precise with measurements and helps to achieve desired results.
Let’s make our vegetable cookies recipe
Take a non-stick pan and heat 1 tsp oil on it. Sauté cumin seed, chopped onions, and green chili for about 2 minutes and then add grated carrots and green peas.
Cook for 2-3 minutes. Switch off the flame.
With the help of a masher, mash these vegetables. Let them cool down.
In a separate bowl take wheat flour, gram flour, cornflour, salt, sugar-free, butter, baking powder, and mashed vegetables. Mix everything with hands to a coarse breadcrumb-like mixture.
Can you use vegetable oil instead of butter for cookies? The answer is No.
People have asked this question many times, so I thought to address it here. Butter is important if you want your cookies not to spread or get de-shaped while baking. Butter holds the structure and shape of the cookie and vegetable oil cannot do this. Vegetable oil has a low melting point and stays in a fluid state while at room temperature.
You will need to add milk to bind the dough, however, just add 1 tablespoon milk at a time till you get a smooth dough. I added 2 tablespoons of milk.
Now cover the dough with a cling wrap and refrigerate it for 30 minutes.
PS: Refrigeration will help the butter to solidify and bind the dough.
Meanwhile, keep the oven for preheating to 160 °C.
After 30 minutes take the dough out of the refrigerator and slice the cookies using a sharp knife. Arrange the cookies on a greased baking tray and put them to bake in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes. The edges should turn golden.
PS: you could also use parchment paper instead of greasing the tray.
Note: I am not using a cookie cutter to shape the cookies, however, feel free to use a cookie cutter to give proper shape to your cookies.
Once baked, take the cookies out and transfer them to a cooling rack and allow them to cool down.
Your Eggless carrot cookies with all the goodness of vegetables are ready to be served.
Enjoy Deliciousness.
If you like my recipes, follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. If you like to watch video recipes, check my YouTube Channel for more amazing recipes.
|You would also Love: Eggless Rosette Butter Cookies
Want to Master Baking Healthy Cookies at home
Check out my
Healthy Cookie Baking Course
Whole Wheat Vegetable Cookies Savory
For all those who are trying to avoid sweet biscuits, try these amazing savory vegetable cookies. These are healthy, spicy, with whole wheat and gram flour. This simple to bake and savory veggie cookies recipe will delight every cookie lover.
Ingredients
- 100 gm Whole Wheat Flour
- 50 gm Gram Flour
- 70 gm Butter Unsalted
- 15 gm Corn Flour
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Sugar-free
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 1/3 cup Onions Finely Chopped
- 1 tsp Green Chilis Chopped
- 1/3 cup Green Peas
- 1/3 cup Carrot Grated
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 tbs Milk
- 1 tsp Oil
Instructions
- Take a non-stick pan and heat 1 tsp oil on it. Sauté cumin seed, chopped onions, and green chili for about 2 minutes and then add grated carrots and green peas.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes. Switch off the flame. Mash these vegetables. Let them cool down.
- In a separate bowl take wheat flour, gram flour, cornflour, salt, sugar-free, butter, baking powder, and mashed vegetables. Mix everything with hands to a coarse breadcrumb-like mixture.
- Add 1 tablespoon milk at a time till you get a smooth dough. I added 2 tablespoons of milk.
- Now cover the dough with a cling wrap and refrigerate it for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, keep the oven for preheating to 160 °C.
- After 30 minutes take the dough out of the refrigerator and slice the cookies using a sharp knife
- Arrange the cookies on a greased baking tray and put them to bake in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes.
- When baked, take the cookies out from oven and transfer them to a cooling rack.
- Let the cookies cool down completely before serving.
Notes
- Every ingredient in the recipe and its quantity has its own significance. Do not alter them.
- This recipe is a tried and tested recipe. Substitute the ingredient/s only at your own risk.
- You can adjust the servings of this recipe in the “Recipe Card” and all the ingredients and their measurement will automatically adjust.
- To switch between grams and cups, use this “Conversion Chart”.
- To buy our recommended baking tool and ingredients, please visit, our Shop of recommended baking products.
- To make these cookies without an oven, please refer to the steps mentioned in Cookies without Oven.
- In Cookies, vegetable oil and butter are not interchangeable. Butter not only provide fat to the cookies but also provide structure. Vegetable oil stays fluid in nature and hence will fail to give structure to your cookies.
- Do not knead the dough else it will develop gluten that will result in soft and chewy cookies.
- Do not miss to refrigerate the cookie dough. This will avoid cookies spreading while baking.
- The choice vegetables can be yours.
- Fist mix the butter with flour and rub it to get crunchy cookies. Then only add milk.
- The dough should be firm for cookies.
- If you wish you can replace gram flour with wheat flour to make whole-wheat cookies. Rest everything will remain the same.
- Store the baked cookies in an airtight container.
My first batch of decent cookies! Thanks Sonia! I would like to double this recipe, should I also double the baking powder? Can we use other flours like ragi instead of gram flour? I did add more salt (1t) and sugar (1T) than the recipe called for, and may actually add a wee bit more. That’s just my preference. The only trouble I had was with an appropriate thickness, and therefore baking time.
Hi Sonia, just chilling this dough in the fridge now. Fingers crossed… I’m quite new to this… tried your focaccia recipe, came out well. Thanks. May I know the purpose of gram flour in this recipe, is it just flavour?
Cn we use some ragi flour to this recipe?
Hi Supriya,
You may like to experiment.
Hi Sonia,
Really enjoy your recipes,they help me a lot
The recipes you post are so clear
Thank you so much
Keep posting
Hope to see you soon
Hi Preeti,
Thank you so much for writing such a wonderful feedback. It made my day.
Happy Baking!
Sonia
Hi Sonia
I think this recipe of yours is gonna to be a great help for me on coming raksha bandhan. I was searching for such kind of healthy stuff. Wish you a great journey ahead.👍
Hey Navjot,
Happy to hear that you liked the recipe. How did Raksha Bandhan go? Did your brother like the cookies?
Regards
Sonia
Hi,what’s the self life of these cookies?? How many days can we store it?
Hello Kavitha,
The shelf life will be 7-10 days.
Regards
Sonia
What is sugar free? Is it the artificial sweetener? Can I substitute it with brown sugar?
Yes, Sugar-free is an artificial sweetener, to make it diabetic friendly. You may use sugar of your choice.
Sonia Is Such A Great Baker as well as She helps A lot…
In found her on Facebook she guided me soo well… And Helped me in every possible way…
And now I follow her to try new recepies?
Ruchi, I am humbled by your kind words.
Thanks a bunch.
Being a food blogger myself, I know how hard it is to write each and everything, gather information and present this in front of our reader. Make content appealing to get readers interest. Overall I loved the way you have presented the whole website and specially the recipes. I will try my hands on few of them.
Apart from this when it comes to cookies and that too home baked, nothing can beat this. I will definitely try this at home and will offer to my parents. Hope they will like it 😉
This is such a lovely feedback Aliya. Appreciated.
Try other cookies too, you will love them.
Regards
Sonia
Definitely and yes I have already tried my hands on Whole Wheat Vegetable Cookies didn’t go that perfect as you have made and I still trying to make them perfect. Currently I’m the only one who had what I’ve made. hehehehe
I guess I have to try a lot.
Hey Aliya,
Thanks for stopping by and reading the post. I appreciate your comment too. I am sure you will bake wonderful cookies, maybe just a batch or two more.
Cheers!
Yes I will. One day if we ever meet then I’ll bake for you. Hehehe
I will look forward to that Aliya 🙂