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
- 1 tsp Coriander seeds
- 1/2 tsp heaped Pepper
- 1/2 tsp Cumin
- 1/2 tsp Carom seeds
- 1/4 tsp fennel seeds
- 3/4 tsp Dry ginger powder
- 1 Clove
- Generous pinch Cardamom powder
- 1/8 tsp Cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp Ghee
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
- 1/4 cup tightly pressed Jaggery
- 1/4 cup Water
Instructions
- In a heavy-bottomed pan add coriander seeds, pepper, fennel seeds, clove, carom seeds and saute in low flame for 2 minutes
- Add cumin seeds and saute till It turns warm
- Furthermore add ginger powder, cardamom powder, and cinnamon powder; Mix everything well and cook for 15 seconds; turn off the stove
- Let the mixture cool down, grind into powder. Add little water and ground like a thick chutney
- In the same pan add Jaggery and water; mix well and turn on the stove in medium flame
- After the Jaggery melts down turn off the stove and strain the jaggery syrup
- Wash the pan and add jaggery syrup to the same pan and boil
- Let the jaggery syrup boil well and turns sticky ( avoid one string consistency)
- Add the ground mixture and sauté well
- The mixture comes together and thickens
- Add 1 tsp of ghee and mix well, continue cooking
- As we cook the mixture turns thick and resembles honey
- Add sesame oil and mix well, turn off the stove as soon as the Legiyam turns glossy/ shiny. Legiyum also starts leaving the pan and if you try to touch with wet hands it comes u sticky
- Immediately transfer the legiyum and let it cool
- Close the lid after it is completely cool
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Notes
- If you prefer legiyum to be sweeter side add extra jaggery
- I have roasted all the ingredients dry instead you can soak them in water and grind
- You can grind the mixture into a powder but I have ground it with little water. If you are adding dry mixture mix well immediately as it might turn lumpy
- Always turn off the legiyum as soon as it becomes glossy else legiyum will turn chewy
- Avoid cooking the legiyum till oil separates, that will make the legiyum stony kalkona or kamarkat. You can’t even take the legiyum out of the box
- After eating Legiyum you will feel the ginger and pepper flavor in the throat, if preferred you can add honey to the legiyum
- Traditional Deepavali legiyum recipe calls for naatu marundhu kadai (herbal medical shop) stuff like kandandhipili, arisi thipili, and others. I have adapted the recipe with basic, readily available ingredients
- Legiyum thickens overtime so switch off before it comes to that stage
- The color of the legiyam depends on the jaggery
- I have used ginger powder instead you can saute ginger and ground
- Pepper powder can be used instead of pepper
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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!