Eggless Oats and Wheat Cookies

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour - 1 1/2 cups
Whole Oats - 1 1/4 cups
Brown Sugar - 1 cup
Unsalted Butter - 1/2 pound
Walnuts/Akrot - 1/2 cup
Whole Pistachios or Almonds or Cashews
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder - 1/8 tsp
Green Cardamom/Elaichi - 2 pods (seeds only)

Method:
1. Roughly chop the walnuts. Grind green cardamom seeds to a fine powder.
2. Microwave butter in a microwave safe mixing bowl for about 2 minutes to melt the butter. Alternately, you can heat butter in a vessel on a stove top. Let the butter cool slightly, about lukewarm.
3. Now add chopped walnuts, green cardamom powder and brown sugar to the melted butter. Mix well with a spoon to dissolve the sugar.
4. Lastly add baking soda, baking powder, wheat flour and oats. Mix all the ingredients well.
5. Divide the dough into equal size 20 - 25 round balls. Slightly flatten them and place whole pistachios in the centre. The dough has enough butter, so there is no need to grease the baking tray.
6. Place the dough balls on a baking tray lined with aluminium foil, each a few inches part. Preheat the oven at 350 deg. F and bake the cookies for 12 - 15 minutes.
7. Enjoy crunchy crispy Eggless Oats and Whole Wheat Cookies.

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