Eggless Whole Wheat Coconut Cookies

A healthier alternative to all purpose flour is whole wheat flour. Here is my recipe for crunchy healthy coconut cookies.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour - about 2 1/4 cup

Dessicated (Dry) Coconut - 1/2 cup

Walnuts/Akrot - 1/4 cup (optional)

Unsalted Butter - 1/2 pound

Light Brown Sugar - about 1 cup

Green Cardamom/Elaichi - 2 pods

Baking Soda - 1/8 tsp

Baking Powder - 1/4 tsp

Whole Pistachios or any other nuts

Method:

1. Microwave butter for about 2 minutes to melt it. Alternately, you can heat butter in a pan on a stove top, just enough to melt it. Let the melted butter cool slightly. Grind the cardamom seeds to a fine powder. Roughly chop walnuts.

2. In a mixing bowl, add melted butter, sugar, dessicated coconut, chopped walnuts and cardamom powder. Mix all the ingredients well with a fork or spoon.

3. Add wheat flour, baking soda and baking powder. Mix again and divide the dough into 20 - 25 round balls. Slightly flatten them and place the whole pistachios or almonds in the centre.
4. Preheat the oven at 350 deg. F for about 10 minutes. Line a baking tray with aluminium foil. Place the cookies, each a few inches apart. Bake the cookies at 350 deg. F for 12 - 15 minutes. Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes.

Indian Dal / Lentils

Lentils, known as Dal are a staple in an Indian diet, especially vegetarian. For me, dal is comfort food. 5 different dal varieties - Toor, Moong, Chana, Masoor and Urad are commonly used in Indian sweet and savory delicacies. You can cook dal with just one kind or a mix of two or more. I generally cook dal with 1:1 Toor and Moong dals. But then, we like Panchmel or Panchratna Dal too, which is made of all five. Most dal recipes have Toor dal as the primary ingredient. It is also known as Toovar or Arhar dal or Split Pigeon Peas . Some of our family favorite dal recipes are Dalitoy (Konkani Dal) Tadka Dal Among all lentils, moong dal and masoor dal take lesser time to cook. Moong dal is also known as Split Green Gram or Split Mung Bean . Moong dal is also used in making sweet dishes like Mung Dal Kheer Mung Dal Puranpoli Chana dal is also known as Split Bengal Gram or Split Chickpeas . Chana Dal takes a little more time to cook as compared to toor dal....

Naval Kol Bhaji / Kohlrabi Stir-fry

Green Kohlrabi called as Navalkol in Marathi and Navilkosu in Kannada, belongs to the cabbage family. My Mom used to make this stir fry very often. Just like cabbage, this vegetable in available in two colors - green and purple. I was quite hesitant about the purple one, as I haven't seen that back in India. Anyway, I picked the green bulbs and Navalkohl Bhaji with Chana Dal was part of our healthy vegetarian meal today.

Surti Val Papdi Bhaji

My Mom used to make Val Papdi Bhaji in a simple way with few ingredients. This is the first time I gave it a try here in my US kitchen. This stir fry does require little more oil, as no water is added for cooking. Dal Rice tastes great with this sauteed Papdi. I tried this Bhaji once with frozen Surti Papdi and I was not happy with the result. I prefer fresh Papdi for this recipe, which I can only find in the local Indian store. I am not sure if Val Papdi is called as Navy Bean or Fava Bean in English.

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