Jeera Cookies | Roasted Cumin Shortbread Cookies
This delicious and addictive Jeera Cookies is all you need with your cup of coffee or tea. A melt-in-the-mouth shortbread cookie flavored with roasted cumin brings the savory and sweet together in a wonderful way.
Cookies are my weakness and anytime I see a good recipe for cookies, I have to try it out. I joined a new group called Recipe Swap Challenge, where we are paired with another Food blogger and get to try a recipe from each other's blog.
This month I am paired with Paarul who blogs at Paarul'z Kitchen and I chose this delicious Jeera Cookies or Roasted Cumin Shortbread Cookies from her blog to try.
The cookie base is a simple shortbread base made with butter, flour, and sugar. The roasted cumin adds a wonderful layer of flavor to the cookie and completely takes it to another level.
The Roasted Cumin Shortbread Cookies are neither sweet nor salty. It is perfect with a cup of tea or coffee and is a great cookie for dunking. My little one is a cookie dunker (not sure if that is even a word) and would always bring his stack of cookies to my coffee to dunk.
My father is here on vacation and he really enjoyed the cookies. We were leaving for Chicago to visit family the next morning and since everyone at home really liked it, I made 2 more batches of Jeera Cookies to take with us.
Every single person who tasted the Jeera cookies at my aunt's place loved it and I was so glad I made some at the last minute.
I did not make any changes to the cookies. I just increased the sugar a little bit as I felt it was less for our taste buds. The dough comes together very quickly and after that, all we need to do is roll it and bake.
Preparation time - 10 minutes
Baking time - 15 to 17 minutes
Difficulty level - Easy
Ingredients to make Jeera Cookies - Makes 18 Cookies
- All Purpose flour - 1 cup + 2 tablespoon (might need a little more or less to bring the dough together)
- Butter (Unsalted) - ½ cup / 1 stick (softened)
- Powdered Sugar - ⅓ cup
- Salt - ¼ tsp
- Baking powder - ¼ tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 ½ teaspoon ( roasted and slightly crushed)
Step-by-Step Procedure
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. I like to use a double baking sheet to keep the base of the cookies from becoming too dark.
- In a pan, roast the cumin seeds until lightly brown and aromatic. It takes just 2 minutes in low heat. Once the cumin seeds cool down a bit, crush it lightly and keep it ready.
- In a bowl, whisk the butter and the powdered sugar until creamy. Softened butter really helps to bring it together quickly.
- In another bowl, sift the flour along with the baking powder and the salt.
- Add the flour in batches and mix it with a spatula to bring it together and form a soft dough. Start with a cup of flour and then slowly add about a teaspoon of flour at a time to bring the dough to the right consistency.
- At this point add the roasted and crushed cumin seeds to the flour mixture and make the dough.
- You could roll the dough out to about ⅛th of an inch of thickness right away or keep it in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes and then roll it. I tried it both ways and it really did not affect the quality of the cookies.
- When rolling the dough, make sure to liberally dust your work surface and the rolling pin with flour.
- Use a cookie cutter, shape out the cookies, and place them on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake the cookies for about 15 to 17 minutes or until they are slightly golden at the edges.
- Remove the cookies from the tray and place them on the cooling rack to completely cool.
- Store the cookies once they are completely cooled down in a air-tight container.
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Recipe
Jeera Cookie | Roasted Cumin Shortbread Cookie
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup All Purpose flour might need a little more or less to bring the dough together
- ½ cup Butter Unsalted -1 stick (softened)
- ⅓ cup Powdered Sugar
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ¼ teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoon Cumin seeds roasted and slightly crushed
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. I like to use double baking sheet to keep the base of the cookies from becoming too dark.
- In a pan, roast the cumin seeds until lightly brown and aromatic. It takes just 2 minutes in low heat. Once the cumin seeds cool down a bit, crush it lightly and keep it ready.
- In a bowl, whisk the butter and the powdered sugar until creamy. Softened butter really helps to bring it together quickly.
- In another bowl, sift the flour along with the baking powder and the salt.
- Add the flour in batches and mix it with a spatula to bring it together and form a soft dough. Start with a cup of flour and then slowly add about a teaspoon of flour at a time to bring the dough to the right consistency.
- At this point add the roasted and crushed cumin seeds to the flour mixture and make the dough
- You could roll the dough out to about ⅛th of an inch thickness right away or keep it in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes and then roll it. I tried it both ways and it really did not affect the quality of the cookies.
- When rolling the dough, make sure to liberally dust your work surface and the rolling pin with flour.
- Use a cookie cutter, shape out the cookies and place them on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake the cookies for about 15 to 17 minutes or until they are slightly golden at the edges.
- Remove the cookies from the tray and place them on the cooling rack to completely cool.
- Store the cookies once they are completely cooled down in a air tight container.
Can you use cumin powder instead of the seeds? We have alot of cumin in our house. I'm looking for something different to make
Tammy, cumin powder would not work in the recipe. It will make it too strong and kind of savory as it spreads all through the dough.
I'll be back for rating but so far looks easy and hassle free. I'll be shaping them to rectangles pricked with a fork in the middle or better yet shap'em to fingers.
Thank you beforehand. They look absolutely lovely.
Till then.. happy baking!! 😊
Thanks for taking time to write back! Hope you like the recipe and it works for you 🙂
That is so perfectly bakes sandhya. May be you can bake some and parcel it to me:).
Thanks a lot Veena! Sure, will send some 🙂
Love to have this with chai anytime! Bookmarking these cookies!
Thanks Amrita! They were perfect with the evening chai!
Pass the plate Sandhya! They are just what I need to send to my daughter in Bangalore. Must taste amazing.
Thanks a lot Archana! Anytime for you 🙂
These look amazing and perfect for tea time! A great travel snack too in my opinion, cumin is really good for health. The step by step pics really help for newbies in baking.
Thanks a lot Vidya! The cookies were delicious and loved by my relatives when I took it for them.
I can smell the cumin flavor booming out from cookies.Cookies are sooo perfect and finely made. I Love jeera cookies.
Thank you Jolly! We absolutely loved the cookies and they are so quick to put together.
Nice recipe..looking for this type of snacks item these days. Lovely share..
Thanks Ankita! Give it a try, you will love it.
These are my family's favorite, I am glad you liked it Sandhya. They are perfect to enjoy with hot masala chai .
Thanks Paarul for a great recipe! It worked perfectly.
Jeera cookies looking perfectly baked and in great shape. Really with tea their combination is divine. I can have them anytime.
i love cookies the most...i love to be dunked it in my tea all time and these jeera cookies sounds perfect for it
Thanks Lathiya! These cookies are perfect for dunking 🙂
Feel like having these yummy cookies right now... so perfect !
Thanks Priya!
Jeera cookies are favourite at my place too. Yours look perfectly baked and the recipe sounds very simple. Thanks for the lovely share .
Thanks Poonam! We really enjoyed the simple cookies.
Wonderful share Sandhya. Cookies looks so perfect, crisp and delish. Loved it. Bookmarked it to try soon.
Thanks Sujata! Do give it a try.
Perfect cookies Sandhya. Have tasted them in India but have yet to try baking them at home. Cookies are my weakness too.
Thanks Mayuri! This was very close to the bakery taste and you will love it.
I was looking for a good recipe for Jeera biscuits and this seems to be it!
Thanks Aruna! This recipe worked really good and we loved it.
The cookies look so perfect. I am sure it would have been a pleasure among the family to share this wonderful recipe.
Thank you Seema! It was a pleasure to see everyone enjoy it.
Just prefect to munch or carry in a snack box, how scrumptious those cumin shortbread cookies looks. Feel like munching some rite now. They looks very much attractive.
Thanks a lot Priya! It was very addicitive.