Butter crackers | Whole Wheat butter cracker are super healthy snacks for kids and adults. Butter gives amazing flavour to this cracker. Guilt free to munch on.
Giving healthy snacks for kids is every mom's biggest concern, well at times more than helathy, there is one big question, whether they will eat it. The one which worked yesterday may not work today.
Everyday its experimenting.Ever since Vishvak started solid food, the topic about kids food will always come whenever I talk to my friends. Whenever my friend suggest something I wanted to try.
3 course healthy meal for is one side but healthy mid- morning and evening snacks was another concern. Vishvak was initially big fan of corn puff then he started liking store brought multi grain crackers. I wanted to try something in home.
Ingredients
- Ladies Finger - 10 - 12 depending on the size of ladies finger
- Small onion - 20 + 3
- Tomato - 1 big chopped
- Turmeric powder - pinch
- Tamarind - 1 small lemon sized ball or around 3 tbsp heaped tamarind paste
- chilli powder or sambar powder - 2 tsp
- Jaggery - 1 tbsp
- Salt - to taste
To temper:
- Sesame Oil - 2 tablespoon + 2 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Fenugreek - 1/4 tsp
- Curry leaves - few
To grind:
- Coconut grated - 1/4 cup heaped
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
- Coriander seeds - 1/2 tbsp
- fenugreek seeds - 1/8 tsp
- Pepper - 1/4 tsp
- red chilli - 3
- Tomato - 2 tbsp
- Small Onion - 3
Instructions
- Add 3 cups of water to 3 heaped tablespoon of tamarind paste and mix well
- In a pan add 1 teaspoon of sesame oil and add fenugreek seeds, pepper, coriander seeds, red chilli, and fennel seeds, saute till they turn aromatic and slightly change color
- Add cumin seeds, onion, and tomato and saute till tomato turn slightly mushy for about 1 minute
- Simmer the stove and add coconut and salt; mix well and turn off the stove
- Finally, add chilli powder and mix well
- Transfer everything to a plate and let it cool down
- Add little water and grind after everything is cool
- Add oil to a wide pan. When the oil is hot add 'to temper' ingredients and lets them splutter
- Furthermore, add onion and sauté till the onion is translucent
- Add tomato and ladies finger and saute well
- Furthermore, add turmeric powder and a little salt and cook till tomatoes turn mushy and ladies finger stickiness is gone
- Add tamarind water and boil for 10 minutes
- Furthermore, add 1 cup of water and boil for 5 minutes
- Add the ground paste and little water; cook for 10 minutes
- Add jaggery and 1 teaspoon sesame oil and cook for 10 more minutes
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Notes
- Brinjal, drumstick, etc. can be used instead of ladies finger
- Adjust the Kuzhambu consistency according to your desire
- Jaggery is optional but gives a nice flavor
- The color of the kuzhambu depends on the chilli and chilli powder you use
- If you don't have tamarind paste, soak small lemon sized tamarind in hot water and extract juice
- You can use sambar powder instead of chilli powder
- You can use regular big onion instead of shallots
- If you are using tangy tomatoes adjust the tamarind accordingly
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True feeding children the right kind of food is the biggest concern for mothers and if you have a fussy eater the concern just doubles. The butter crackers are wholesome for the little ones. Having whole wheat its a healthier option and lightly flavoured with cumin, the little ones are bound to love these.
Thanku Piyali:-)
Healthy munchies V.. ...
Thanku Chitr:-)
Good healthy snack Vidya! 🙂 They are looking very crunchy too 🙂
Thanku Chcook:-)
perfect for my evening coffee 🙂
Thanku Bikram:-)
I love this spicy ,tasty & healthy crackers .
Thanku Madhavi:-)
These whole-wheat butter crackers looks so crunchy and crisp. Nice share! 🙂
Thanku Anu:-)
Vidya.. nee latea vandalum latesta varuva nu Malar ku theriyum. So no worries. I think only yesterday we kept talking about blog if not all our calls will be vetti aratai dan la.
Between great cracker. Glad your kiddo liked it.
We had hot blog related topics na Sri;-) oh ya namba usual vetti kadhai tana pesuvom.. Un recipe podum pothu I have lot of things to write:-) thanks da
Wow, these crackers look superb. At first sight,I thought those were store bought. Then only I saw the recipe. It looks very crunchy. Crunchiness is a plus when it comes to kids.
I so understand what you said. One day kids may like something and the next day, they don't even want to taste it. " Kids", right ? 🙂
Thanku Rasakama:-)
I just love these Vidya! Food is always a challenge with little ones, and it is great to be able to make your own snack food. I can't wait to try these 🙂
Thanku Antonio:-)
Wonderful crackers Vidya, they sound simple to make and would be so much better than anything you would buy in the store.
Thanku Suzanne:-)
Delicious butter crackers love it.
Thanku Swathi:-)
Healthy and crunchy one dear 🙂 I can finish off this one in no time
Thanku Kushi:-)
Vidya,
These butter crackers look amazing and so healthy! I am drooling looking at them!
Thanku Sandhya:-)
These crackers look so delicious! I love the idea of making my own crackers - I'll have to try your recipe!
Thanku Rachel:-)
I'm really keen to try and make these. Thanks for sharing.
Thanku Peggy:-)
perfect snack for tea time!! looks crunchy!!
Thanku Sundari:-)
Its very healthy snack and easy also..thanks
Thanku Jaleel:-)
Wheat crackers look so yummy and crispy..
Whole-wheat butter crackers looks so amazing and yummy share 🙂
This is a good one, I have to try this for Sid!