Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, nankhatai- indian shortbread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Indian Shortbread Cookies [RECIPE] 'Nankhatai' or Nan Khatai is a melt-in-mouth cardamom scented Indian shortbread cookie. These are buttery soft, sweet and perfectly crisp, and go so well with a steaming cup of milk, tea or coffee. Nan Khatai is Eggless Indian shortbread cookies made with a combination of flours, semolina, ghee and infused with a delicate cardamom flavor.
Nankhatai- Indian shortbread is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Nankhatai- Indian shortbread is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nankhatai- indian shortbread using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Nankhatai- Indian shortbread:
- Make ready 1/2 cup ghee + 1 tbsp extra
- Prepare 1/2 cup icing sugar
- Get 1 cup maida(wheat flour)
- Prepare 1/2 cup besan (gram flour or chickpea flour)
- Take 1/4 cup suji (semolina)
- Get 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Get Some chopped pistachios for garnishing
If you're in the mood to bake this weekend, try this fail-proof Nankhatai recipe. Nankhatai/Eggless Indian Shortbread Cookies are melt in mouth traditional Indian eggless cookies made using all purpose flour (maida), chickpea flour (besan), semolina (sooji), sugar and ghee (clarified butter. They are flavored with cardamom powder. Remember the nankhatis will be soft at this point.
Steps to make Nankhatai- Indian shortbread:
- Whisk ghee (soft not melted) and sugar until its creamy
- Add in all flours and cardamom powder
- Use your palm to mix everything. Once all lumps are gone start kneading it. At this stage if you knead more ghee, put it and knead to a soft dough. It will take time, be patient please
- Once that dough is formed, keep in fridge for 15 mins
- Preheat oven at 180C fan forced and line a baking tray with parchment paper
- After 15 mins make small balls and flatten them, they wont rise or spread.
- Bake for 15 mins. check you might need to keep another 5 mins. Make sure they dont turn dark.
- Let them cool and enjoy with your tea or coffee
So remove carefully with a ladle. Nankhatai is an Indian style cookie that is a perfect tea time snack. They are usually made during the Diwali festival in India. Perfect nankhatai that look exactly like the bakery bought ones. I am sure you cant resist them.
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