Amaranth Orange Cookies

Amaranth Orange cookies is made using Amaranth flour and the orange juice that we added gives it a nice citrus flavour. Amaranth flour is a flour that is packed with nutrients. It is made by grinding the seeds of Amaranth plant. They are rich in proteins, calcium and is full of antioxidants. When I had been to Bombay I bought these flours and wanted to make Amaranth orange cookies with it.

I adapted this recipe from Vitacost’s Amaranth Lemon cookies. I substituted lemon juice and lemon zest with orange juice and orange zest respectively. Also the original recipe is made with egg and I have given the recipe for eggless version. These cookies are chewy. I accept that we dont get the taste of the maida cookies but these are really healthy and guilt free to give it to the kids.

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Amaranth Orange Cookies

Niranjana Sankaranarayanan

Amaranth flour is a flour that is packed with nutrients. It is made by grinding the seeds of Amaranth plant. They are rich in proteins, calcium and is full of antioxidants. When I had been to Bombay I bought these flours and wanted to make cookies with it.This recipe is adapted from Vitacost’s Amaranth Lemon cookies. I substituted lemon juice and lemon zest with orange juice and orange zest respectively. Also the original recipe is made with egg and I have given the recipe for eggless version. These cookies are chewy. I accept that we dont get the taste of the maida cookies but these are really healthy and guilt free to give it to the kids.

Some more Cookie recipes

Oats Biscuit

Sathumavu cookies / Sprouted Health mix cookies

Butter biscuit

Eggless Coconut Macaroons

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Biscuit, Cookies, Snacks

Cuisine American, Indian

Servings 30 cookies

Equipment

• OTG

Ingredients

  

Dry ingredients

• 1 cup Amaranth flour
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/4 tsp Baking soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt

Arrowroot powder gel (Substitute for 1 egg)

• 2 tbsp Arrowroot powder
• 3 tbsp Water

Wet ingredients

• 1/8 cup Desiccated coconut
• 1/8 cup Orange juice
• 1/8 cup Coconut oil
• 1/8 cup Water
• 1 tbsp Orange zest
• 1/2 cup Cane sugar Sugar – 1/8 cup

Instructions

 

Arrowroot mix

• Mix two tablespoon of corn flour with 3 tbsp of water. This is the substitute for one egg. We can also use flax seed gel as a substitute for egg. Keep it aside.

Orange zest

• Grate the orange skin without white part. This gives nice aroma and fragrance to the cookies. Orange zest is ready and keep it aside.

Wet ingredients

• Take a bowl and add desiccated coconut, orange juice, coconut oil, water, orange zest. Mix well.
• Now add the arrowroot power mix and cane sugar/powdered sugar. Wet ingredients mix is ready.

Dry ingredients

• Now take another bowl, sift all the dry ingredients.
• First add arrowroot powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sift everything well.

Final step

• To the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients in it and mix it with the spatula.
• Donot give pressure to knead the dough. Just bring everything together.
• Grease the baking tray with parchment paper or butter paper.
• Now take small balls, flatten it on your hands and give impression with the fork.
• Arrange it on the tray.
• Pre heat the oven at 170 degree celsius and bake it at 170 degree celsius for 14 minutes.
• I placed the tray on the top rack for 7 min and bottom rack for another 7 min.
• The temperature and the timing will vary from oven to oven.
• Allow the cookies to cool and store it in an air-tight container.
• Serve with hot tea and coffee.

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Keyword Baked goodies, Biscuits, Heakthy baking, Indian cookies

INSTRUCTIONS

 Arrowroot mix

• Mix two tablespoon of corn flour with 3 tbsp of water. This is the substitute for one egg. We can also use flax seed gel as a substitute for egg. Keep it aside.

Orange zest

• Grate the orange skin without white part. This gives nice aroma and fragrance to the cookies. Orange zest is ready and keep it aside.

Wet ingredients

• Take a bowl and add desiccated coconut, orange juice, coconut oil, water, orange zest. Mix well.
• Now add the arrowroot power mix and cane sugar/powdered sugar. Wet ingredients mix is ready.

Dry ingredients

• Now take another bowl, sift all the dry ingredients.

• First add arrowroot powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sift everything well.

Final step

• To the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients in it and mix it with the spatula.
• Donot give pressure to knead the dough. Just bring everything together.

• Grease the baking tray with parchment paper or butter paper.
• Now take small balls, flatten it on your hands and give impression with the fork.
• Arrange it on the tray.

• Pre heat the oven at 170 degree celsius and bake it at 170 degree celsius for 14 minutes.
• I placed the tray on the top rack for 7 min and bottom rack for another 7 min.

• The temperature and the timing will vary from oven to oven.

• Allow the cookies to cool and store it in an air-tight container.

• Serve with hot tea and coffee.

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