How to make Nankhatai -
Crunchy, crumbly and sweet – eggless Indian cookies.
This recipe has featured on the show Khanakhazana.
Main Ingredients : Refined Flour, Gram Flour
Cuisine : Indian
Course : Snacks and Starters
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Nankhatai Recipe Card
Nankhatai are deliciously sweet Indian shortbread cookies. Prepared by mixing gramflour, refined flour, ghee, yogurt and cardamom powder nanakhatai has a distinctive taste which tastes brilliant dunked in a cup of hot chai! This biscuit snack can be made hassle free from scratch in your home kitchens. Eggless, crunchy, sweet and crumbly – a nankhatai is everything we look for in a biscuit!
Prep Time : 26-30 minutes
Cook time : 21-25 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Moderate
Taste : Sweet
Ingredients for Nankhatai Recipe
Refined Flour 2 1/2 cups
Gram Flour 1/2 cup
Ghee 1 cup
Powdered sugar 1 3/4 cup
Yogurt 1/4 cup
Ammonia 1 teaspoon
Green cardamom seeds coarsely ground 1/4 teaspoon
Method
Step 1
Cream together ghee and sugar in a food processor. Add yogurt and process again. Give rest for ten minutes. Sieve together refined flour, gram flour and ammonia.
Step 2
Add green cardamom powder and mix. Add the flour mixture to ghee and sugar mixture and cream again. Remove the dough in a bowl and give rest for half an hour.
Step 3
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a baking tray. Make thirty small balls from the dough and place them on the tray keeping some space between each.
Step 4
Bake in the preheated oven at 180°C for twenty to twenty five minutes.
Step 5
Let them cool on the tray for some time and then place them on wire racks to cool thoroughly. Store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Info
Calories : 3452 Kcal
Carbohydrates : 462.1 gm
Protein : 45.8 gm
Fat : 157.7 gm
Other : 0
Best Cooked In
Wonderchef Prato Hand Mixer 300 Watt
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