Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, nankhatai- indian shortbread. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Nankhatai- Indian shortbread is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Nankhatai- Indian shortbread is something which I have loved my entire life.
These beautiful little shortbread cookies are called Nankhatai, and are flavoured with cardamom and rose water. Nankhatai have a brilliantly mixed heritage. These are buttery soft, sweet and perfectly crisp, and go so well with a steaming cup of milk, tea or coffee.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook nankhatai- indian shortbread using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Nankhatai- Indian shortbread:
- Take 1/2 cup ghee + 1 tbsp extra
- Prepare 1/2 cup icing sugar
- Get 1 cup maida(wheat flour)
- Get 1/2 cup besan (gram flour or chickpea flour)
- Get 1/4 cup suji (semolina)
- Take 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready Some chopped pistachios for garnishing
Well, this is my first ever cookie recipe on the blog. 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. Nankhatais are Indian bakery style biscuits (that's cookies for those in the US) similar to a Scottish shortbread cookie.
Instructions 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
All it requires are flour, fat and sugar. As with any Indian recipe, there are umpteen variations to the recipe. Mostly, clarified butter (ghee) is the preferred fat. Indian Shortbread flavored with cardamom and vanilla will just melt away in your mouth! How to make khasta Nan Khatai Recipe..
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