Naan Khatai Cookies
Naan Khatai Cookies

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, naan khatai cookies. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Naan Khatai Cookies is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Naan Khatai Cookies is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Nankhatai are traditional Indian shortbread cookies made with all-purpose flour, semolina, sugar and ghee. There are so many variations of nankhatais and can be made with different combinations of flour. In the earlier days most Indian homes did not have an oven so these were baked in stovetop aluminium ovens & cookers.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have naan khatai cookies using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Naan Khatai Cookies:
  1. Prepare 1 cup besan
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup maida
  3. Take 2 tbsp sooji
  4. Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
  6. Take 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup ghee
  8. Get 1-2 tbsp milk (if needed)
  9. Prepare as needed Slivered pistachio

Nankhatai is very old Indian shortbread cookie. 'Nan' means bread and 'khatai' means cookie. It was made after experimenting with bread flour and hence the name. The popularity of the naan khatai increases every day and get transported to the Bombay markets. If you are interested in making the naan khatai by your own which is closer to the Pakistani taste or North Indian, you can do it.

Instructions to make Naan Khatai Cookies:
  1. Cream ghee and sugar with help of a whisker or a beater till it’s light.
  2. Take rest of the dry ingredients in a bowl.
  3. Now add dry ingredients in the wet mix of ghee and sugar and knead lightly like a dough.
  4. If the mixture in dry add milk. Mine wasn’t as I had used melted ghee.
  5. Pinch lemon size dough and make balls - - Place pistachio n sprinkle some cardamom powder on each. That’s optional
  6. Preheat the oven - - Place the butter paper on a baking tray and place all prepared dough balls.
  7. Now bake them at 180degrees for 12-15 minutes
  8. Keep checking as temperature differs from oven to oven - - Once they are done from the bottom, Take the tray out and let them cool completely. - - Enjoy besan naan khatais with coffee or tea.

The result of the dish is really delicious from the kitchens to your loved ones. First, weigh, all the dry ingredients and add it to the sieve. Add in the maida (all purpose flour), besan (chikpea flour), salt, cardamom powder and baking powder. Store in an air tight container at room temperature. 'Nankhatai'** ** (नानखटाई)** 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.

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