Gond (edible gum) biscuits recipe
Made with gond/edible gum, whole wheat flour and cane sugar, these healthy butter cookies are a delicious treat for the ongoing winters.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 1 cup whole wheat flour (143 grams)
- 1/3 cup sugar of your choice (63 grams - we used cane sugar)
- 1/2 cup butter (109 gram)
- 3 cardamoms (crushed)
- 3 tbsp gond/edible gum (35 gram)
- 1 tsp desi ghee
- 2 tbsp cashews (crushed for decoration)
Instructions
- Take a pan add desi ghee and gond in it.
- Stir fry on low heat until gond turns fluffy and translucent. It will hardly take 5 to 7 minutes.
- Off the pan from the heat and when gond turns completely cool, transfer it in a grinder along with cardamoms.
- Grind to coarse powder and keep aside.
- Take butter and sugar in a bowl.
- Whisk to creamy butter.
- Add coarsely ground gond and whole wheat flour. Mix well.
- Now using your hand, combine the mixture into a dough without kneading.
- Make small balls out of dough and flatten them on your palm.
- Arrange on greased baking tray lined with greased butter paper.
- Tuck the crushed cashews on each cookie.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven @160°C for 25-30 minutes in the middle rack of the oven.
- Take out and let them cool completely.
- Enjoy.
Notes
- Make sure it is gond, not gond katira.
- Instead of cashews, you can use almonds or pistachios for garnish.