Baked Spinach Savouries/Salted Spinach Cookies Recipe

Spinach cookies with adzuki bean shoots

These baked spinach savouries are really simple to make, delicious and healthy. You can have it as a snack or as part a meal, in the form of a pancake. The recipe is quite versatile, you can add other ingredients to the dough. I have added adzuki bean sprouts and they turned out delicious. It is like the chocolate chip version.

Calling the baked spinach savouries cookies is perhaps stretching the definition of cookies a little bit. What is a cookie? The trusted wiki alludes to the sweet version but there is no common definition. There is actually a lot of confusion when it comes to defining cookies. A cookie in US is biscuit in most other countries, a cookie is a bun in Scotland, a biscuit is a scone in the US, a cookie is generally chocolate chip cookie in UK and therefore my baked spinach savouries is a cookie. And even better, you can have them for dinner without feeling guilty!

I’ve had eaten deep fried versions in Asia. They are shaped into balls and usually served with a spicy sauce made with tamarind and few other ingredients. While the baked version may be less tasty compared with the deep fried version, it is much easier to make, and of course better for you. 

Few notes:

• I use a mixture of plain flour and rice flour. Rice flour makes it crunchier. You can substitute rice flour with chickpea flour or you can use 100% flour but the texture will be a bit more ‘doughy’
• The spinach can be chopped roughly or finely, depends on your preference. I use frozen finely diced spinach and it works perfect.
• The amount of spinach and onions depends on your preference. Use as much as you want, if you are unsure, use more not less
• The consistency of the dough should be somewhere between thick cream and bread dough
• You don’t need to preheat the oven, start with a cold oven. I have tried with and without a preheated oven, the main difference I found was that it took longer when preheating the oven, obviously. There was negligible difference in the final outcome

Ingredients

¾ cup plain flour

¼ cup rice flour

1½ teaspoons baking powder

2 tablespoons oil

Spinach, fresh or frozen

½ onion

3 cloves garlic

Water

Salt

Directions

1.       Combine shifted flour and baking powder

2.      Add spinach, finely diced onion, minced garlic, salt and oil

3.      Add enough water to make a soft runny dough

4.      Drop tablespoons of batter onto a well greased baking tray

5.      Flatten slightly and bake at 220 degrees until it starts to brown, about 15 minutes 

 

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