Chocolate Chip Pistachio Cookies

This is my try on baking healthy cookies. Whole Wheat, Pistachio and dark chocolate chips forms the ideal healthy ingredient for this recipe.

Cook Time:

25 Minutes

Ease of Cooking:

Easy

What all you'll need?

• Whole Wheat Flour - 1/2 cup
• All Purpose Flour - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 -3/4 cup (depending on how sweet you want)
• Pistachios - 1/2 cup(chopped into bite size pieces)
• Semisweet/Dark Chocolate Chips - 5 tablespoons
• Butter - 1 stick/113 grams(at room temperature)
• Salt - A pinch
• Baking soda - 1/2 teaspoon
• Cardamom Powder - 2 teaspoons (optional)

Let's cook it!!

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking soda and salt.
3. In a different bowl, add butter and sugar. Mix them well using a hand mixer until its creamy in texture.
4. Add the flour mixture little at a time to the creamed mixture and mix well. Add the rest of the ingredients to this and form a soft dough out of it.You can always add some milk to get the right consistency.
5. Line the cookie tray with a parchment paper or wax sheet.
6. Make small round balls of the dough and place them on the tray.
7. Bake them in the preheated oven to about 15 minutes.
8. Remove from the oven and transfer the cookies to a cooling rack.
9. Once its cool, store them in an airtight container.