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
- Tamarind blocks - 100 grams
- Water - 2 cups
Instructions
- Break the tamarind block into small chunks. If there are any seeds discard them
- Place these tamarind chunks/pieces into a cooker separator add 1 cup of water
- Close the separator with a lid
- Add water to the cooker and place the separator. Pressure cook for 3 whistles and switch off
- Let the pressure release the naturally and tamarind mixture cools completely
- If the tamarind you used is soft without hard membranes, seeds, fibers, etc. blend the cool tamarind + 1 cup of water in a hand mixer or mixie
- On the contrary for tamarind with the hard membrane, fiber, etc. and mash the cooked tamarind thoroughly with hands/ potato masher
- Use strainer/colander/ tamarind extractor/ mesh strainer to strain the tamarind
- Strain the cooked tamarind and collect the thick tamarind extract in a container
- Add 1/2 cup of warm water to the remaining tamarind extract
- Squeeze and then extract the tamarind concentrate and collect in the same container
- Add 1/2 more of water to the tamarind extract
- Squeeze and extract well
- Thick tamarind pulp is ready
- Now add the thick tamarind pulp in the heavy-bottomed pan
- Cook for 10 minutes or till it thickens and turn into a thick tamarind concentrate (puli gojju)
- Turn off the stove and cool down completely
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate
- What to do with the remaining tamarind?
- Add 1/2 to 3/4 cup of water and extract the juice; use it for Rasam recipes. Tamarind residue can be used to clean pooja items.
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Notes
- If you are doing in instant pot cook in high pressure for 20 minutes and natural pressure release
- Thin tamarind extract can be used for cooking and discarded tamarind solids can be used to clean brass and bronze
Reduce the cooking time for soft tamarind. 3 whistles and 17 minutes for instant pot - Second time Cooking tamarind concentrate helps for longer shelf life. If you are keeping for a month you can skip it
- Make sure to immerse the tamarind fully in the water
- If you are making tamarind concentrate in large quantity it is better to Work in batches.
- If puli paste is not thick it might not stay longer
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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!