Name: Salt Biscuits, Homemade Salt Biscuits, How to Make Salt Biscuits Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: Maida/ all-purpose flour – 1 bowl (250 gms.); Ghee – 1 tbsp.; Thymol seeds/ vaamu – ½ tbsp.; Salt – ½ tbsp.; Water – required to knead

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Salt Biscuits is one of the famous south Indian snacks. They are best tasted with hot tea. Sweet and salt biscuits are almost available in every Irani tea stall. They are best suited for small children as well as old age people.

I wonder many people instead of having nutritious low-calorie food during the morning as a breakfast have two biscuits and a cup of tea or milk. Especially in Hyderabad, salt biscuits are common among below poverty line and Karachi biscuits among the middle and upper class.

Salt biscuits are usually prepared using maida or all-purpose flour and thymol as main ingredients to make it crisp and mouth melting. To get the soft and puffy output, we need to add ghee and mix vigorously.

We either use butter or ghee to knead the dough, we can even use vanaspati or normal oil but it tastes slightly different flavour. When it comes to the bakery version they use soda or sometimes yeast and bake it.

In another variation, I have seen people adding jeera even that is good for health, whereas we have added thymol seeds to keep your stomach in good condition and improve digestion.

Contents

TIPS to make perfect Salt Biscuits:

Although the name states its salt biscuits, we add less than a tablespoon or else they taste salty.
Crush thymol seeds in your hand if you feel they are big.
While cutting chapatti into shape, if you do not have any mould we can directly slice chapatti using a knife into square or diamond shape.
If you do not pierce chapatti they bulge like a puri also it helps in cooking biscuits.

Salt Biscuits, Homemade Salt Biscuits, How to Make Salt Biscuits Recipe

Salt Biscuits are famous south Indian snacks. They are best tasted with hot tea.

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Salt Biscuits

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 1 Medium Container

Calories 80 kcal

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

Maida/ all-purpose flour – 1 bowl 250 gms.
Ghee – 1 tbsp.
Thymol seeds/ vaamu – ½ tbsp.
Salt – ½ tbsp.
Water – required to knead

Instructions

Salt biscuits can be made in different formats one is by baking process and other is by deep-frying.
To knead dough we make use of ghee so melt ghee in a vessel and keep aside.
Add all-purpose flour, salt, thymol seeds (vaamu) and ghee in a mixing bowl.
Mix well and knead to get pliable dough by adding small batches of water.
Divide dough into portions and roll to medium size balls and keep aside.
Like a chapatti, sprinkle little flour and press ball and roll to make chapatti shape.
Pierce chapatti with a fork so that while deep frying it cooks well and do not swell like a puri.
Using a knife slice to a square, rectangle or if you have mould then cut chapatti to round or star shapes.
Similarly cut and make the remaining dough. Keep aside and heat oil in a pan.
Put sliced biscuits in oil and deep fry them on low flame till they turn a golden brown colour.
Remove from oil and strain excess oil through a colander and transfer them to another bowl.
Store Salt biscuits in an air-tight container once cooled.