No-Oven Stovetop Gluten-Free Cookies with Gram Flour: A Quick and Easy Treat
These are quick and easy gluten-free cookies, No oven required!Learn how to make delicious, homemade gluten-free cookies using gram flour. This simple recipe requires no oven, making it perfect for those without one or who want a quick and easy treat. You will enjoy these!
Equipment
- 2 mixing bowls
- 1 Wooden Spoon
- Measuring cups and spoons (If you don’t have these, improvise with cups and spoons closest in size)
- A fairly heavy pan (I like to work with 2 pans to hasten the baking process)
- Baking paper if not greasing pan or pans (If greasing, work with a tsp marge/ fat to grease pan and a little flour to dust)
Ingredients
- 1 & ½ cups gram flour (besan flour)
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ⅓ cup sugar (Or as preferred)
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- ⅓ cup cooking oil
- 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
- A few drops of milk (About 2 teaspoons)
Instructions
- Sieve the gram flour into a bowl, then add the sugar, baking soda, and salt. Mix with your wooden spoon until even. Set aside.
- Add the egg, oil, and vanilla to a separate bowl. Mix with the wooden spoon until well mixed.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing with the wooden spoon. As the dough begins to thicken, begin mixing the ingredients with your hands.Add a few drops of milk. (I mostly add up to 2 teaspoons of milk) Mix until the ingredients have come together. keep in mind the dough is gluten-free. It may not be stretchy like the dough with wheat flour. It’s usually just firm.
- Divide the dough into small 18 to 20 balls about an inch in diameter each. I use two pans that are 10 to 11 inches in diameter to bake the cookies. The cookie pieces should fit in your pans so you can bake one time. If you have only one pan, bake the first set of cookies as I’ll explain below. When baking the next set of cookies, you won't have to grease the pan a second time if greasing, or use another baking paper. Simply arrange the next set of cookies in the pan and bake. If your pan is smaller in diameter, arrange the cookies in the pan and bake in batches until all are baked.Let’s now go to the how of baking without an oven on the stovetop.
- Line the pan or pans you will use with baking paper, trimming the baking paper to ensure it fits well in the pans. In the absence of baking paper grease and dust the pans.
- Arrange the cookies in the pan or pans, leaving room between the pieces to allow space for expansion. Lightly press each cookie piece with the tips of your fingers to flatten them slightly.
- Cover the pan but ensure not to cover it too tightly to allow any steam formed during the baking process to escape. You don't want it to form droplets on your lid that drop on the cookies.
- Transfer the pan to your gas stove or cooker. Light the burner and allow it on full flame for 30 seconds to heat up the pan. If you are baking them on one of your large surface burners, reduce the flame; not the lowest as designed by your manufacturer because that flame is still too high. It will burn the cookies before they get ready. Instead, reduce it as though you are switching off and get it to the lowest flame as shown in the picture below, (This can be troublesome to do as the flame may keep going off but keep at it until you get to the lowest, the kind that if you blew hard on it, it might just go off.This is the kind of flame that will bake your cookies for about 20 to 30 minutes or until they brown to a nice golden color on the underside.*If you are using the smallest burner, usually when you reduce to the lowest as the stove or cooker has been designed, this should bake your cookies without burning them since the surface area of the burner is very small. Ensure though to check on them to be sure they are not burning before they are ready now that gas stoves are different.
- Check on them after 15 minutes. If they've browned, turn them over. If not, add another 5 minutes before turning them over until they've browned nicely.
- Once you’ve turned them over, bake another 10 minutes on that low flame for them to brown on that part as well.
- Transfer the cookies to a suitable plate or tray or let them cool on a wire rack.
- Serve cooled with a suitable beverage and enjoy your cookies!Enhance your hospitality for the glory of God.
