Most Indian kitchens would always have a spice rack with zillion colorful spices, multiple containers with different types of lentil, a huge container filled with wheat flour and definitely a white rice container. Typically!
When it comes to utensils, you would always find a pressure cooker or two! Pressure Cooker might intimidate a lot of people but not an Indian wife. They have some kind of love towards them. My Mom has three of those.. different sizes and uses them almost every day. There is one in my kitchen too, hiding somewhere in some counter.
I could never like those! Tough to clean.. makes your kitchen a mess if your water proportion is not correct and then, the noise of the whistle!
One thing that would be very rarely seen in Indian kitchen is a baking oven and a cookie jar. My Mom used to bake.. but mostly plain vanilla cakes in a round oven which would usually rest in the top counter for most the days. Cookies.. never! They would always be bought from some close-by bakery shop.. fresh and tasty. I guess Mom never felt the need.
Now a days, things are changing. There's a lot of baking and grilling happening in every Indian house.
I am not much of a baker. And baking cookies has always been a challenge to me. My very first batch of cookies went straight to the bin - they became hard like rocks. The second batch was good but it didn't look fancy. Third batch was even better but again, it didn't look fancy. I don't know how people make the cookies look so pretty!
Yesterday was my fourth attempt and I made savory cookies this time. They looked ok.. not great, just ok! But they tasted so awsm. We enjoyed these crispy crunchy delicious bites with our evening tea. I think they would taste great with some soup as well.
Also, I wanted to share with you that I have started contributing on Honest Cooking and this was my first contribution 🙂
Recipe adapted from here and it would yield about 35 cookies.
Rosemary and Parmesan Savory Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter (kept in room temperature for 30 minutes.)
- zest of one lemon
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 tablespoon heavy cream
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup finely grated parmesan cheese
- 3 tablespoon fresh rosemary (finely cut)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- olive oil to brush on the cookies (optional)
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk butter and lemon zest.
- Add the egg yolk and whisk until it's smooth and mixed properly.
- Now, add the heavy cream and whisk again.
- In a separate bowl, add flour, cheese, rosemary and salt and mix them.
- Pour the flour mix in the butter mix ¼ cup at a time and keep whisking. Continue till all the flour and butter is mixed properly.
- Cover the bowl and let it rest for 30 mins in the refrigerator.
- Finally, give it one last knead with hand and make the cookies. You could use a rolling pin to roll them and cut in shape. Or make tiny balls and press them with your palm.
Nutrition
At last, brush some olive oil on top of the cookies. This would give them a nice brown color.
Bake them at 350 F for about 25 minutes. Turn them and bake them for another 5 minutes.
Meghna
Kankana,
rosemary is one of my fav herb... will be trying them out for a friend's get together... do you thing using whole wheat flour/almond flour work ???
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Congrats on your feature in Honest Cooking!!! These savory cookies are fantastic... I loooove the flavors!
sally
I love the combination of parmesan cheese and rosemary in these crackers. I've only made homemade crackers once and loved them, so I'll have to give your recipe a try.
Tiffany
These crackers look fantastic! And congrats on your Honest Cooking gig! 😀
Divya Yadava
These look awesome! Your pictures are amazing..I can almost taste them..haha.
Xiaolu @ 6 Bittersweets
Love these savory cookies and great clicks too!
Lin Ann
A savory cookie! These sound really wonderful. I'm a terrible baker but every now and then I get adventurous like you. Well, I love the ingredients here - they must taste fabulous, especially with tea. PS, I don't own a pressure cooker but I think I'd be afraid to use one!
Vaishali
The cookies look delicious. I am definitely one of those cooks who's in love with their pressure cooker-- like your mom, I have three at home. 🙂 But my dog Lucy would agree with you about the noise-- she hates that whistle so much, she scurries off to the basement when she hears me take the pressure cooker out of the kitchen cupboard!
aipi
That's simply sensational ~ I cannot stop staring at your pictures. They are just super drool-worthy ! I'm trying this out soon for sure. 🙂
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Suman Singh
cookies look perfect..love this combo..hey, hv shared some awards with you, kindly accept the same from my blog..thanks!!
tigerfish
They definitely look tempting to me! And savory entice me even more!
Priya Mahadevan
baked to perfection! fabulous cookies - love the ingredients and am totally making these this week! two thumbs up dear for this recipe 🙂
Joanne
I love the idea of a savory cookie! This rosemary parmesan combo sounds super delicious!
Nami @ Just One Cookbook
Kankana, your rosemary & parmesan cookies look so good! My neighbor has endless fresh rosemary and they told me I can use it anytime. I've been tempted to try after I saw this combination before on other bloggers' sites. Now after I saw yours, I really want to try this! Looks so delicious. It'll be a big hit in my house for sure.
Jun
It is my dream to have rows and rows and rows of glass jars full of spices, all Asian spices, mostly. I love spices. Your cookies looks like yummy crackers to me.
On another different note, I love Indian snacks, something like fried crackers? With ground cumin, if I am not mistaken. They are like long noodles. Me and my father would munch on them non-stop, freaking mum out.
Sarah
These look so good! And I love savoury biscuits! I love having something like this with my evening coffee 🙂
Taste Junction
Great your trials have resulted in us having a good svaoury cookie recipe!! I'm all for these crunchy bites. And congrats on your contribution...that's the way to go!!
hemalata
Cookies looks so crispy and crunchy,looks so inviting.Nice preparation.
Hester Casey - Alchemy
Kankana, these savoury cookies look amazing. I love that you kept perfecting the recipe until you got the result you wanted.
Purabi Naha
Kankana, I always hold my breath when I click your blog...you are so talented in taking pictures and in baking! Great savoury treat. Rosemary and cheese would go very well together!