August 6, 2018 Leave a Comment
+1ShareTweetPinWhatsAppWhen your baby is born, it is the most indescribable feeling. You are looking at a part of yourself, at someone you love more than life itself. You want to give your baby all the best things in the world. And you can!! Wondering how? Through your breast milk!!
Breast milk has all the vitamins and nutrients the baby needs, in the right amount for the right stage. It’s also packed with disease-fighting substances that helps to increase immunity in babies. The foremost concern faced by the breastfeeding Moms is reduced milk supply, especially in the early days. This can be largely overcome by following a nutritious diet with lots of fluids, protein and special foods that boost milk supply. Lactation enhancing mixes like lacto booster are a good addition to an otherwise balanced diet and helps to boost breast milk supply. And if you’re in the mood for something crunchy and munchy, check out our lactation cookies for breastfeeding Moms!
Lactation Cookies for Breastfeeding Moms
Ingredients:
- 1 cup quick cooking oats powder (dry roast the oats, cool and grind to a powder)
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup jaggery powder
- 1/4 cup ghee / olive oil
- 2 tablespoon flaxseed powder (dry roast the oats, cool and grind to a powder)
- 2 tablespoon milk
- 2 tablespoon fennel seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons dry fruits powder
Method:
- Mix flax seed powder in 2 tablespoon warm water and mix well. Keep aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, sift the whole wheat flour, oat flour, salt and dry fruit powder. Add the bran back to the flours which is left after sifting the flour. Our idea is just to aerate the flour.
3. Add fennel seeds to the flour mix. Our dry ingredients are ready.
4. In another bowl take ghee and add jaggery powder to it. Cream the mix well. Add milk to it and whisk the mix until it turns light and fluffy. This step is very important and will decide how light your cookies will turn on baking.
5. Next add the flax meal to this fluffy mix and blend well. Our wet ingredients are ready.
6. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and blend with a spatula.
7. Allow the mix to rest for 10 minutes. This time will allow the flours to absorb the moisture and blend all the flavors.
8. While the dough is resting, preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
9. Now just combine the dough well. Do not knead. As kneading will lead to the formation of gluten , which will make the cookies chewy, which we do not want.
10. Grease a baking tray or line it with a parchment paper. Pinch out a gooseberry size portion of the dough and roll between the palms and flatten slightly. Make all the cookie dough similarly and arrange on the greased baking tray. Keep some space between each cookie dough.
11. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degree Celsius in a preheated oven.
12. Allow the cookies to cool down completely on a wire rack before transferring them to an airtight container. The cookies are a bit soft while hot and harden on cooling.
These cookies are mildly sweet, crunchy at the edges and soft from within. Though these cookies are meant for new moms, people of all age groups can enjoy them as guilt-free snack, especially since it does not contain any preservatives or baking soda. Oats, flax seeds and fennel seeds are the key ingredients which help in milk production. The roasted flax seed powder also acts as an egg replacer in this recipe. So enjoy these cookies with a glass of milk and stop stressing about your supply!
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- • 1 cup quick cooking oats powder (dry roast the oats and powder them on cooling)
- • ½ cup whole wheat flour
- • ½ cup jaggery powder
- • ¼ cup ghee / olive oil
- • 2 tablespoon flaxseed powder (dry roast and powder on cooling)
- • 2 tablespoon milk
- • 2 tablespoon fennel seeds
- • ¼ teaspoon salt
- • 2 teaspoons dry fruit powder
- Mix flaxseed powder in 2 tablespoon warm water and mix well. Keep aside.
- In a mixing bowl, sift the whole wheat flour, oat flour, salt and dry fruit powder. Add the bran back to the flours which is left after sifting the flour. Our idea is just to aerate the flour.
- Add fennel seeds to the flours. Our dry ingredients are ready.
- In another bowl take ghee and add jaggery powder to it. Cream the mix well. Add milk to it and whisk the mix until it turns light and fluffy. This step is very important and will decide how light your cookies will turn on baking.
- Next add the flax meal to this fluffy mix and blend well. Our wet ingredients are ready.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients and blend with a spatula.
- Allow the mix to rest for 10 minutes. This time will allow the flours to absorb the moisture and blend all the flavors.
- While the dough is resting, preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
- Now just combine the dough well. Do not knead. As kneading will lead to formation of gluten, which will make the cookies chewy which we do not want.
- Grease a baking tray or line it with a parchment paper. Pinch out a gooseberry size portion of the dough and roll between the palms and flatten slightly. Make all the cookie dough similarly and arrange on the greased baking tray. Keep some space between each cookie dough.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degree Celsius in a preheated oven.
- Allow the cookies to cool down completely on a wire rack before transferring them to an airtight container. The cookies are a bit soft while hot and harden on cooling.
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