I am sharing a healthy baked mathri recipe with fewer calories, and crispy to the core. You’ll surely want to bookmark this mathri recipe.
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Baked Crackers!! I am super excited about this one because, as an Indian mathri is one of my go-to snacks.
Until now, I made them following a traditional methi mathri recipe from my mother. But this baked mathri is quite a revelation. They are easy to make, do not require deep frying, are vegan, and look fancy, like gourmet crackers.
It’s a highly customisable mathri recipe and brilliant for making ahead because it stays crisp for days!
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Flour: I use a combination of whole wheat flour (atta) and gram flour (besan). You can make this mathri with all-purpose flour (maida), jowar flour, ragi flour, or buckwheat flour.
- Sooji: Use fine granular semolina (rava) and not coarse texture.
- Seasoning: Pickle Masala Powder, Carom Seeds (ajwain), Chaat Masala, Cumin Powder, Salt
- Oil: Use flavourless, odourless, light vegetable oil.
- Water: Use ice-cold water to bind the dough
- Seeds: You can embellish mathri with white sesame and nigella seeds.
How To Make Baked Mathri
Step 1) Combine flour, semolina, seasoning, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Mix nicely with a spoon or fingers (images 1 & 2).
Step 2) Pour oil and rub the flour mixture using your fingers. The flour mixture should resemble fine bread crumbs (images 3 & 4).
Step 3) To bind dough, add ice cold water, one tablespoon at a time, and knead a stiff yet pliable dough. Knead the dough for 8 to 10 minutes.
Step 4) Keep the dough covered aside for 10 minutes.
Step 5) Divide the dough into two equal parts. Pick one ball at a time, and roll flat into ¼ inch thickness like a big sheet.
Step 6) Using a pizza or cookie cutter, cut squares. Prick each mathri with a fork and brush with oil. Sprinkle seeds on each mathri.
Step 7) Bake them in a preheated oven, flipping once in between for even browning from both sides.
Step 8) Transfer the baked mathri to a wire rack to cool down. Once cooled, the mathri tends to crisp a little more.
Serving Suggestion
Mathri is an Indian munching snack. You can serve it with a cup of tea, pack it in school lunch boxes, or for travelling.
However, this baked mathri tastes delicious on a party snack platter with dips like salsa, roasted pepper dip, or avocado hummus, salad, and cheese. They are just perfect for Diwali or Holi get together.
My Tried and True Tips
- While making baked mathri, it is essential to follow ingredient measurements precisely. Do NOT add too much fat/oil/ghee (moyen), or water to the flour.
- Make sure to rub oil and flour nicely before adding water. This process needs most of your time and attention if you want perfectly flaky mathri. Both (flour and oil), when combined, must stick together.
- Rest the dough covered for 10 minutes. Resting the dough helps in relaxing the gluten strands and gives flakiness to the mathri.
- Next, add only one tablespoon of ice-cold water to bind the dough. We want a non-sticky, soft, moist, and pliable dough. Knead the dough for 8 to 10 minutes.
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Baked Mathri Recipe
- Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- 150 gram Whole Wheat Flour (atta)
- 50 gram gram flour (besan)
- 2 tablespoon semolina (suji/rava)
- 30 ml vegetable refined oil
- 125 ml ice cold water
- 1 teaspoon Chaat Masala
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder (jeera powder)
- 1 teaspoon achar masala (pickle masala powder)
- 1 teapsoon carom seeds (ajwain)
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoon sesame seeds (white til)
Instructions
- Combine flour, semolina, seasoning, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Mix nicely with a spoon or fingers.
- Pour oil and rub the flour mixture using your fingers to bring them together. The flour mixture should resemble fine bread crumbs
- To bind dough, add ice cold water, one tablespoon at a time, and knead a stiff yet pliable dough. Knead the dough for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Keep the dough covered aside for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius for 10 minutes. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Spray or brush it with cooking oil.
- Divide the dough into two equal parts. Pick one ball at a time, and roll flat into ¼ inch thickness like a big sheet or roti.
- Using a pizza or cookie cutter, cut squares. Prick each mathri with a fork and brush with oil. Sprinkle seeds on each mathri.
- Bake them in a preheated oven, flipping once in between for even browning from both sides. It takes 20 – 25 minutes. Turn them halfway through for even browning and cooking.
- Transfer the baked mathri to a wire rack to cool down. Once cooled, the mathri tends to crisp a little more.
- Serve Baked Mathri immediately for storage in an airtight container.
Recipe Notes:
- Store baked mathri only once it cools down entirely; else, it will turn soggy.
- In an airtight container, baked mathri remains crisp and fresh for ten days at room temperature, even in hot and humid climates.
- You can add seasoning to the baked mathri according to personal preference.
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