My daughter has a sweet tooth and a mid-evening snack for means something sweet, which is not a fruit. I have been trying to get her to eat fruits and other snacks items, every other day she requests for 'chocki bikki' in her tiffin. Though given her appetite she can manage to eat only one on most days, I am not really enthused about feeding her store bought sugar loaded maida biscuits. So I came up with these healthier Finger Millet biscuits, which are not very sweet, but just enough to balance the bitter taste that ragi lends.
Ingredients
(makes a dozen)
1 cup Ragi or finger millet flour
2 tbsp. All purpose flour
1 tbsp. cocoa powder 1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter 1 tsp. of curd/yogurt 1 tsp vanilla essence Chocolate chips
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 200C.
Dry roast the ragi flour for 5-8 mins to get rid of the raw smell and let it cool once done. Then add all the dry ingredients, AP flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar. Once sugar is completely dissolved add the yogurt and vanilla essence. Then slowly add the dry ingredients and mix into a hard but pliable dough.
Once the dough has come together, shape into cookies and top with chocolate chips. Place them on a parchment lined/greased cookie sheet. These cookies do not expand much, hence it is not necessary to keep a lot of distance between them.
Bake them at 200C for 12-15 mins. Mine were done in about 13 mintues.
Let them cool and store them in an airtight container.
Here they are ready for my daughter's tiffin for her and her friends.
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