Jeera Biscuits

Ingredients list for Jeera Biscuits

• 1 tablespoon Cumin seeds
• 100 grams Butter softened
• 1 tablespoon Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 1 Egg
• grams + for dusting Refined flour (maida) 100
• ½ teaspoon Baking powder
• to taste Salt

Method

1. Preheat the oven at 180ºC.
2. In a bowl, add butter, castor sugar and with the help of a whisk cream it nicely.
3. Break the egg in other bowl and whisk it. Add half of the egg to the butter and mix it nicely.
4. Heat a non-stick pan and lightly roast the cumin seeds.
5. Take the butter mixture, add the refined flour, baking powder, salt and cumin seeds and mix them all well to make dough. Refrigerate the dough for thirty minutes.
6. Take out the dough on the working table, knead it to bind nicely. Dust with refined flour if required.
7. Roll out the dough using a rolling pin and flatten out to ⅛ inch thick disk.
8. Using a round cookie cutter cut the cookies. Place it on an oven tray and refrigerate again for ten to fifteen minutes.
9. Bake it for fifteen to twenty minutes and serve.