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.
Biscuits are the most popular cookies and everyone enjoys to eat biscuits all over the world.
Today, I'm going share a Cumin seed (zeera) Biscuits recipe.
Some people are crazy for biscuits; similarly biscuits fans have their favorite taste.
You can cook Cumin Biscuits:
Zeera Biscuits using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Cumin Biscuits: Zeera Biscuits
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of plain flour.
- You need 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
- It's 1/2 cup of melted Butter.
- You need 1 of Egg.
- You need 1 tsp of Baking powder.
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Cumin seeds.
There are different types of biscuits recipes are making all. These cumin seeds cookies are not only delicious snacks they are also a good source of iron. Learn the recipe of Zeera Biscuits by vahchef. Cumin seeds have been long known for their health benefits.
Cumin Biscuits: Zeera Biscuits instructions
- 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.
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. 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.