Orange-Coconut Biscuit Recipe

Try this easy orange-coconut biscuit recipe made with simple ingredients, offering a lovely citrus flavour and crisp texture—perfect for tea-time snacks.

Ingredients for Orange-Coconut Biscuit:

1. Butter – 125 gm
   Sugar – 1 cup
2. Egg – 1
3. Coconut scrapped – 1 cup
   Orange skin peeled – 2 small spoons
4. Maida – 2 cups
   Baking powder – 2.5 small spoons
   Salt – A pinch
5. Orange juice – 2 big spoons
6. Mixed peel – ½ cup

How to prepare Orange-Coconut Biscuit?

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Beat ingredients no: 1 in a bowl till they turn soft.
3. Add egg and beat again.
4. Add ingredients no: 3 and mix again.
5. Blend maida with salt and baking powder, and add to the above mixture.
6. Finally, add orange juice and make gooseberry-sized balls.
7. Dip one side of each biscuit into the mixed peel and place them in a greased baking dish, with the coated side facing upward.
8. Bake your biscuits in a pre-heated oven for 10-12 minutes. Biscuits should turn golden brown.
9. Take them out of the oven and allow them to cool.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine January 7-20, 2023

Note: Mixed peel is basically candied lemon and orange peel. You can substitute mixed peel with some citrus zest and a little additional sugar, honey or syrup. Orange marmalade can also be used as a substitute, though it is not intensely flavoured.

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