Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies for Halloween

 

 

Oats are a good source of soluble fibre and many nutrients and thereby I try to include Oats in our daily meals. Store bought Oatmeal cookies are way too sweet for me, so I thought of making some Home- made cookies for the Holiday season. I threw a hand ful of dried cranberries which were long forgotten in my pantry.

 

 Alright, now for the recipe you will need.

 

Regular Rolled Oats (coarsely ground) : 1.5 cups

All purpose flour :  0.5 cup

Dried Cranberries  :  0.5 cup

Flax seed meal : 2 tbsp

Butter (in room temperature) : 1/4 cup

Sugar :  1/2 cup or less(I used 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp)

Salt : 1 pinch

Baking powder : 1/4 tsp

Baking soda : 1/2 tsp

Orange juice : 2 tbsp

Vanilla extract : 1/4 tsp

Egg White : 1 egg white

Milk : a few tsps

 

 

Method:

 

 Preheat oven to 350F for 15 minutes. Cream together the Butter and sugar until well incorporated. Beat in the vanilla, orange juice, milk, egg white. Add flour, flax seed meal, oats, Cranberries, Baking pwd, baking soda, salt and mix well. Spoon tablespoons of cookie dough on greased cookie sheets and flatten it with fingers. Keep 1 -2 inch gap between each cookie. Bake for 20-25 minutes or untill done. Keep a eye on the oven while baking.The house smells so delicious that I felt I was inside a giant Cookie!

 

Verdict:
Crispy on the outside, soft 'n' chewy on the inside. And the best part is when you start eating, you can't really stop. You want more n more of it and thats one good reason for never being able to stop how much you eat!!

 

Cookie fanatic!!

Brown Rice Laddu

This recipe reminds me of my days in college hostel where good food was rare.
My friend's mom used to pack a huge box of the laddus also known as 'ari unda',
almost every week and we had fun devouring the laddus. They taste amazing and are almost guilt free. so here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:

Brown Rice- 1 cup
Peanuts- 1/2 cup
Grated coconut- 1/2 cup
Powdered jaggery 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
a few tsp of ghee (optional)


Method:

Dry roast rice, peanuts and coconut separately and powder them. you can hear small popping of rice while roasting. This indicates that rice is getting roasted nicely. Melt jaggery in a pan and sieve the jaggery to remove the impurities. Mix the powdered mixtures and cardamom powder with the jaggery and allow it to cool so that it is warm enough to shape them into laddus using your palms. Ghee can be added if the mixture is too dry to hold as ghee helps in binding.

Lovely 'ari undas' are ready to serve. Store them in air-tight containers, preferably in refrigerator.