Savoury coriander biscuits. Blue Cheese Savoury Biscuits & Coriander Crisps is a community recipe submitted by sethyoung and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe. Lightly grease a baking sheet or line with baking paper. Remove the biscuits from oven and let them cool down. They will harden as they cool. Not too long ago, a woman was judged by how her biscuits turned out.
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Well, times have changed for women but that doesn't mean that we still can't cobble up a GREAT biscuit to serve to family and friends.
The base recipe is for a specific cheese/herb mixture but I have listed many variations that I have made.
You can have Savoury coriander biscuits using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Savoury coriander biscuits
- You need 1 cup of plain flour.
- You need 2 teaspoon of sugar.
- You need 3 tablespoon of butter.
- You need 1 tablespoon of curd.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of sesame seeds.
- You need 1 teaspoon of ajwain.
- It's 1 teaspoon of chilli flakes.
- It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
- You need 1 teaspoon of red chilli powder.
- Prepare Pinch of asafoetida.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of ginger chilly paste.
- It's 2 tablespoon of coriander.
- You need 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds.
Meanwhile arrange the biscuits in a baking tray with butter paper. Once taken out of the oven, the biscuits are soft, when cooled down they become crispy. But my favourite by far are the khara biscuits sold in Bangalore's Iyengar bakeries. Savoury, with a hint of sweetness, fragrant with curry leaves and coriander, and speckled with hot spots of fresh green chilli that bite back when you bite in - they're sheer genius!
Savoury coriander biscuits step by step
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees. In a bowl sieve flour, salt and baking powder Take butter and powdered sugar and mix for about a minute until mice and creamy. Add rest of the ingredients to the creamed butter and mix. Once mixed add flour and make a dough..
- Take a big roll and roll it to the desired thickness and cut with cookie cutters. I have kept it to 1/8 of an inch.
- Using a skewer or a fork make some holes on cookies and bake them in the pre heated oven at 170degree Celcius for 18 to 20 minutes or until the sides are brown. I have used cone tapered tool to make holes..
Fortunately, they're also incredibly easy to make. This Khara Biscuits or savoury Masala cookies are one such jewel in the crown. Unlike the sugary cookies, this is a savoury variety with our Indian spices. The coriander leaves adds a nice flavor to the cookies. Healthy Khara Biscuits are savory Indian style spicy egg free whole wheat flour biscuits/cookies tinged with the spicy flavors of ginger, cilantro, jalapenos and hing/asafetida.