Gluten-free High Protein Sattu Cookies Recipe with Oats and Jaggery | Healthy and Nutritious Sattu Cookies Recipe
About the Recipe
Here I bring you a very nutritious and healthy cookie recipe that you can make for your family. Made with healthy Sattu Atta/Roasted Bengal Gram and Oats Meal.
These soft GLUTEN- FREE cookies are guilt free made without any synthetic sugar and baking soda. These are on the softer side and as you take a bite these melt in mouth , so safely can be given even to your toddlers.
Perfect for all the age groups from toddlers to the seniors in the house. Taste is almost similar to Besan Badam Ladoos or Sattu Ladoos, only that it is much less in calories as Ghee used in these cookies is much less.
You can also pack these healthy cookies, in beautiful gift boxes and gift to your friends,especially those those on restricted gluten-free diet.
I made it for my family and my kids and parents enjoyed these a lot.
Baking Cookies with Healthy flour
Gone are the days when we used to bake with only all purpose flour. Now there are so many healthy flour options that you can use to bake delicious and nutritious treats for your family. All purpose flour(APF) has no nutritional value. There is no fibre so it is hard to digest, it slows down the system and thus the metabolism . Continuous use can lead to many health problems like obesity, high blood sugar and other digestive system related issues.
Choose your flour wisely as these are so many options available now. Instead of APF you can use a Whole Wheat flour that is one of the best and commonly available flour.
Some of the cookie recipes from the blog with Whole Wheat Flour- Almond and Coconut Cookies, Hazelnut Cookies, Chocolate Garam Masala Cookies
You can bake crispy and crunchy cookies with Chickpea Flour(Besan) - the popular Nan Khatai or with Millets flour-Ragi Cookies
Or a mixture of flours like Almond and Oats- One Basic Cookie Dough and Cookie Variations(4 different cookie recipes with one basic dough)
Benefits of Sattu Flour
Sattu is popularly known as Poor Man's Food in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar and Jharkhand. It is very budget friendly and very commonly available ingredient. It is called as the powerhouse of energy, a SUPERFOOD.
Mainly consumed as a summer drink with Sattu salt, sugar/jaggery and lemon juice during hot and dry summers. Not only it cools down the body but is also a great source of nutrients.
Sattu flour is also used as filling with onions, garlic and green chilies for stuffing in parathas or flour dumpling called litti (Bihar's famous Litti Choka) . You can knead it in flour with coriander / fenugreek leaves to make Missi Roti. And now you can also bake cookies using it.
Sattu is highly fibrous protein rich flour. It is made by grinding roasted skinned chickpeas. It has cooling properties and is good for people with high sugar levels. Though summers are the best time to consume Sattu as it has cooling effect on body. But, you can have it anytime in combination with different herbs, flours.
Few more gluten-free, high protein cookies from the blog
Where to buy Sattu Flour
Sattu Atta /Flour is available at almost all the stores in Northern India. In other countries you find it at the Indian Grocery store with name Black Roasted Chana Flour.
You can also make it at home. Grind roasted chana to fine powder. Remove the skin of chana before grinding.
Black Roasted Chana is mainly used as snack for munching with murmura..
Checkout Chana Murmura recipe, a very healthy protein rich and fibrous snack for every age group.
Ingredients of Sattu Cookies
Other Flours used in the recipe are- Oats Flour and Almond Flour. You can make oats flour by grinding quick rolled oats. Almond flour is available at all the leading store. You can skip Almond flour with same amount of oats or sattu. Or, you can finely grind blanched almonds and add in the recipe.
For flavoring you can add cardamom powder, chai masala, vanilla essence or even garam masala if not making for kids. I have added FENNEL SEEDS as we love it's flavor and these are good for the tummy too. You can add whole seeds or fennel seeds powder.
I have used JAGGERY POWDER here. You can use any raw sugar like coconut palm sugar, desi khand. Even castor sugar can be added here if you want.
Pro tips to make perfect cookies
For detailed steps please see recipe card.
Jump to Recipe- While mixing the flour with ghee and jaggery mixture, do not knead the dough. Just mix it lightly.
- Add milk little by little as even a little bit of milk will make the dough sticky and you will have to add more flour and the proportion of ingredients will go wrong.
- Handle warm cookies very carefully as at this stage the cookies are soft and may crumble.
FAQs
no, these are soft cookies unlike the crispy shop bought cookies (like the ones available especially in India), moreover these don't have any additional stabilizers or chemicals which give store-bought cookies a cripsy and crunchy texture.
As there are no preservatives and chemicals used at home these cookies stay fresh at the most for a week. Keep in an air-tight conatiner to avoid early sogging.
Recipe Card
Healthy Sattu and Oats Cookies
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Beater
- Coventional Oven/ OTG
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Sattu Atta/Roasted Gram Flour
- ¼ Cup Oats Flour or Rolled Oats
- ¼ Cup Almond Flour see notes
- ½ Cup Jaggery Powder or any Raw Sugar choose fine sugar
- ¼ Cup Melted Ghee/Butter
- 1-2 tsp Fennel Seeds
- ¼ Cup Milk or use as required
- 1-2 tsp Finely chopped nuts for garnish
- ¼ tsp Salt
Instructions
- If using rolled oats, grind to fine powder.¼ Cup Oats Flour
- In a mixing bowl beat ghee and jaggery till smooth mixture.¼ Cup Melted Ghee/Butter, ½ Cup Jaggery Powder or any Raw Sugar
- Add sattu flour, oats and almond flour, fennel seeds, sat and fold in the ghee and jaggery mixture.1 Cup Sattu Atta/Roasted Gram Flour, ¼ Cup Almond Flour, 1-2 tsp Fennel Seeds, ¼ tsp Salt
- Add milk little by little tbsp of milk to bind the mixture. Use milk as required.¼ Cup Milk
- Fold lightly with hands and then cover the with cling film or a lid.
- Let the dough rest for 30 mins. You can refrigerate it overnight.
- When ready to use , take out from refrigerator and preheat oven to 350°F 180°C for 10 mins.
- Make lemon sized balls. Flatten a bit and arrange on the baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Add finely chopped nuts/almonds and press lightly on the cookies.1-2 tsp Finely chopped nuts for garnish
- Lower the temp. of oven to 170°C or 370°F. Bake in preheated oven for about 18-20 mins or till the sides of cookies start to light brown.
- Leave on the tray and cool completely.
- Warm cookies are very soft and can crumble when lifted from tray , so handle very carefully.
- Once completely cool, store in an airtight container and enjoy with milk /tea or coffee.
Notes
- For OTG - Switch on both the rods with fan on for even baking. Preheat for 15 mins.
- If using conventional microwave oven, Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake at 160°C for 12-15 mins. Place cookie tray on the small rack.
- Almond Flour can be replaced with the same amount of oats/sattu. Or grind 1/4 cup almonds and add with rest of the flour.
- Do not over the mixture after adding flour, cookies will come out hard once it cools down.
Do try these Gluten-free Sattu cookies for your tea time or kid's milk time these are perfect healthy no guilt snacking cookies.
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Sania
No baking powder is required in these cookies
Swati
Yes no baking powder or soda is required. I wanted to the recipe as health friendly as possible. The texture will be a bit different. If you want you can add 1/2 tsp baking powder.
AA
If I don’t want to use milk and keep dairy free, can I use water or coconut milk? Thx
Swati
you can use coconut milk for binding, no water pls.
RAVI SAPKAL
What should be the shelf life of these cookies? Any suggestions
Swati
These stay good for about a week, if stored properly in an air tight container.
Archana
These days I am into cookies. Something I never liked baking in the past. I love these delicious and healthy cookies. Will try making them.
Swati
Thanks Archana.. do try these.
Poonam Bachhav
I use sattu in drinks and ladoos. Now I will try these cookies. Sounds so healthy and flavorful treat for all ages.
Swati
Thanks Poonam!
preethicuisine
These gluten free sattu cookies looks so delicious and irresistible. I love to bake with healthy flour.These are so beautifully done. Guilt free snack for both young and adults alike.
NARMADHA
This is such a healthy treat and perfect for kids. Oats makes it crunchy. We don't get sattu flour mostly here. sattu flour is made with kala chana/black chana?
Swati
Roasted Black Chana that we have with murmura
Sujata Roy
Sattu cookies sounds awesome. I have used different flours in my bakes but never thought of sattu. Really loved your perfectly baked sattu cookies. A guilt free and yummy treat for all.
Swati
Thank you Sujataji!!