Indian Alternatives To The Regular Tea Time Cookie

By Devi Poojari

The tea-time snack is more than just the quintessential chocolate chip or vanilla cookie. Here’s six Indian alternatives to dip in your tea instead.

Nankhatai

The legendary biscuit from everyone's childhood is buttery and delicious to dip in a cup of piping hot chai.

Khari

Flaky, savoury and light on the palette, the khari is the perfect accompaniment to your tea or coffee.

Sesame Biscuits

Nutty in flavour and not too sweet, these biscuits remind us of our childhood at the tea stall where these treats would be sitting in glass jars.

Achappam

Eaten best with sweet, black tea, this Kerala chaya kada staple, with its kaleidoscopic patterns, is crunchy and delicious.

Jam Tartlets

Find these in your neighbourhood, old-school bakeries, sitting pretty behind glass shelves. The sickly sweetness of the jam nestled in the middle of a puff pastry shell feels like a treat in the middle of the day.

Unni Appam

Made with rice flour, jaggery and ripe bananas, these puck-shaped treats cooked in ghee are rich and fluffy in texture.