Baked Palak Ki Mathri Recipe (Baked Spinach Spicy Tea-Time Crackers)

Step 1: To begin making the Baked Palak Ki Mathri Recipe, first clean the spinach thoroughly

Step 2: Then, finely chop the leaves up and keep them aside for later use

Step 3: Sieve the whole wheat flour, semolina and salt 2 to 3 times into w mixing bowl

Step 4: Add the carom seeds, chopped spinach, ghee (or oil) and salt and combine well with your fingertips till the mixture resembles wet sand or coarse bread crumbs

Step 5: Next, slowly add cold water little at a time, and knead the mixture together to get a stiff yet pliable dough

Step 6: Roll it around in the mixing bowl and keep place it in a covered dish, in the refrigerator for 30 minutes

Step 7: Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180 degrees C

Step 8: When you are ready to bake the mathri, take the dough out from the refrigerator and keep aside for 5 minutes

Step 9: Divide the dough into two parts

Step 10: Roll each part into a circle of thickness of your choice

Step 11: Dust the flour if you find it hard to roll

Step 12: Then, using a cookie cutter, portion out small circular mathris

Step 13: Prick them all over with a fork and arrange them on the baking tray lined with baking paper

Step 14: Brush the surface of the mathri with melted ghee and bake at 180 degrees C for 10 to 12 minutes, until they are cooked through

Step 15: Remove the tray from the oven, allow the mathris to cool completely on a wire rack

Step 16: Once cooled the palak mathris are ready to be served

Step 17: Serve the Baked Palak Ki Mathri along with Masala Chai and some other treats like Sabudana Vada, Nariyal Ki Kachori and Green Spinach & Oats Cutlet for a delicious spread