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
- Kozhukattai:
- Rice flour – 1/2 cup
- Water – 1 cup
- Salt – pinch
- Coconut oil – 1/2 teaspoon + to grease
- Paal:
- Unsweeted coconut milk - 1 can
- Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Sugar - 1/2 cup adjust according to taste
- Water - 1/3 cup
Instructions
- In a sauce pan, add coconut oil and 1 cup of water and bring to boil. When it is boiling and you see bubbles, add the sieved flour (Have Hot water in separate pan/kettle)
- For the flour that I used, the extra water was not needed. If you feel dough is dry, add 1 tablespoon of hot water, else no need to add. Water added should be boiling hot water, so its better to keep 1/4 cup hot water separately
- Cook till it comes to non sticky dough consistency
- Cover the dough with a damp cloth and when the dough is warm enough to handle grease your hand with coconut oil and roll
- Make small spheres (Marble Size). Since rice flour is gluten free they tend to be sticky, so greasing hand with coconut oil helps for easy rolling. Cover with damp cloth and Keep Aside
- Add the liquid from the can along with 1 tablespoon of thick coconut milk and 1/4 cup of water and boil
- Add cardamom powder and mix well
- Let the coconut milk comes to boil and once when it starts boiling add kozhukattai
- After adding Kozhukattai first they all will sink to the bottom. Cook for 3 minutes or till kozhukattai starts floating. I covered and cook the kozhukattai but that's is optional
- Add sugar and cook for 2 0r 3 till it melts
- Add the thick coconut milk to the paal kozhukattai
- Lastly add 2 tablespoon of water to the coconut milk can. Shake and add to the paal kozhukattai
- Cook in low flame for 15 seconds and turn off the flame
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Notes
- Instead of using store-bought coconut milk homemade coconut milk can be also used
- Fresh coconut can be added for extra flavor
- Boil kozhukattai in thin coconut milk and add thick coconut milk towards the end
- Milk and coconut powder can also be used instead of thin coconut milk
- Can also steam Kozhukattai and add them in thin coconut milk but the flavor is best when kozhukattai is cooked in coconut milk
- The measurement for water and thin coconut milk can be adjusted to our choice, it should be just enough for the balls to immerse
- If you are using homemade coconut milk use 3rd /or thin milk and boil Kozhukattai
- Saffron can be added for extra flavor
- If you shake the coconut milk can before using it might be difficult to separate the watery coconut milk easily. In that case, dilute the milk and cook Kozhukattai
- Make sure thin coconut milk is watery to avoid curdling
- For extra flavor, Milk can be added while preparing Kozhukattai dough but even without that coconut milk gives a nice flavor to this dish
- For the Paal (milk) to blend well with the balls, you can roll small Kozhukattai
- Cooked Kozhukattai turns lightly bigger
- After cooking paal kozhukattai give 15-20 minutes standing time for coconut milk flavor to blend well with kozhukattai
- Do not cook thick coconut milk for a long time as there are chances for curdling
- Instead of sugar, jaggery syrup can also be used. Make sure jaggery syrup is cooked till it is well melted and strained
- Instead of making balls, you can also dump the dough in a murukku achu and press it directly in thin coconut milk
- Traditionally raw rice is washed well and drained, spread in a towel till the moisture drains completely, and ground into a fine powder. Since it will take time, I have used store-bought Rice Flour
- Idiyappam flour can also be used to prepare Kozhukattai
- Can combine Rice flour and water to dosa batter consistency and add coconut oil and cook till you get the dough to the consistency similar to the one shown in the above picture
- Avoid stirring the paal kozhukattai when it is cooking as you might break the kozhukattai
- Paal kozhukattai thickens over time so if required add water
- Adjust the sugar according to your taste
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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!