Cumin Biscuits: Zeera Biscuits. Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add sifted flour, cumin and salt and mix with hands till just combined. Cumin cookies or jeera/zeera (hindi name for cumin) biscuits as we call them in India are ideal for tea time. Little sweet and little salty, I love to dip them in my chai, so yum! I have tried making these cookies before but somehow they never tasted the way I wanted them to and so I tried and tried again and finally I found a recipe which was just perfect.
These cumin seeds cookies are not only delicious snacks they are also a good source of iron.
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Cumin seeds have been long known for their health benefits.
You can cook Cumin Biscuits:
Zeera Biscuits using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Cumin Biscuits: Zeera Biscuits
- It's 1 1/2 cup of plain flour.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
- You need 1/2 cup of melted Butter.
- You need 1 of Egg.
- You need 1 tsp of Baking powder.
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1 tsp of Cumin seeds.
They benefit our digestive system and give some sort of cancer protection. So these cookies give two fold benefits! Zeera biscuits are also called Jeera, as jeera/zeera is the name for cumin and these biscuits are made with, obviously, cumin. It is my version of a Pakistani recipe.
Cumin Biscuits: Zeera Biscuits step by step
- Grease baking tray with butter or oil and set aside. Take a bowl add melted butter and sugar mix well till nice and creamy.Then add baking powder, salt, cumin and egg mix well till all ingredients combined well..
- Add flour in batches and make a soft dough no Knead. Cover dough with cling film and rest in fridge about 30 minutes. Take it out dough from fridge and put this dough between two (2) parchment paper and roll out with rolling pin and cut the Biscuits with help of cookie cutter and arrange all biscuits in greased baking tray.Take some cumin seeds and gently press down top of the biscuit..
- Pre-heat oven about 7-8 minutes before baking biscuits and bake all biscuits 170°C or 180°C 20 minutes all till nice light brown colour..
- Cool down completely and save in container. Enjoy ! With tea / coffee.
There are versions with egg and some are without the egg, as I wanted to make my biscuits vegan, I've tried a egg-less version. Zeera/Cumin Tea-Biscuits Recipe: Sweet, Salty, Crispy Cumin biscuits, perfect for Tea-time. A staple in Pakistani homes although mass-produced by big companies but freshly baked in small bakeries are liked alot. I am sharing my favorite eggless biscuits recipe which uses few ingr. METHOD: Mix ground sugar and oil.