Wheat Oats Almond Cookies

Celebrate Christmas with these easy, healthy and yummy cookies!

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup wheat flour
• 1/3 Cup Oats Coarsely crushed
• 1/2 Cup Butter 
• 6 Tbsp Castor Sugar
• 3 Tbsp Almond flakes
• 1/2 Tsp baking soda
• 1/2 Tsp baking powder
• 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Essence
• A pinch of Salt (optional)

Method:

• Bring the butter to room temperature.
• Mix butter and sugar well in a bowl. 
• In another bowl, mix flour, oats, soda, baking powder, salt.
• Add this to the butter and sugar mixture.
• Add almonds and vanilla extract. 
• Mix everything together gently.
• Take a small portion of the mixture and shape using your palms.
• You will be able to make around 25 cookies from this mixture.
• Preheat oven to 350 F, place parchment paper in baking trays.
• Put all cookies in the baking trays.
• Bake them for 15-17 minutes.
• Take out of oven and place on wire rack to cool down.

Cookies are ready to serve, keep left-over cookies in an airtight container.

Zucchini Cheese Bites

Serve these awesome bites on a rainy winter afternoon as a tea-time-snack or as a starter for dinner. Most of the ingredients are available at home, or you can easily replace a few of them with something else.

Ingredients:

• 1 Zucchini
• 1 Boiled Potato
• 10-12 Spinach leaves
• 2 Big spoons rice flour
• 1/2 tsp. Chaat masala
• 1 tsp Red Chili Powder or 2 green chilies finely chopped
• 1/2 inch ginger
• 3-4 Garlic Cloves
• Salt as per taste
• 2 tsp oil
• Cheese cubes - 1 cm in size

Method

• Grate zucchini, chop spinach leaves. 
• Take it in a bowl. Add to it mashed potato, rice flour and all seasonings.
• Take a spoonful of mixture in your palm. 
• Shape it like a bowl and put a cheese cube in the center.
• Enclose the remaining mixture to make it round.
• Put appe pan on medium flame, add few drops of oil.
• Keep the baals in it for 2-3 minutes. 
• Turn all the balls when they are golden-brown in color.
• Serve hot with ketch-up.