Nankhatai Cookies. Nankhatai recipe - Delicious, light & crisp eggless cookies made with flour, ghee, cardamom powder and sugar. 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. Nankhatai Recipe with step by step photos.
Nankhatai are Indian shortbread cookies that are made with all-purpose flour, sugar and ghee (clarified butter) or butter.
Nan Khatai Cookies Are Very Popular: These cookies are very famous in India, and everyone I know raves about them.
They are perfect for an afternoon snack, brunch, tea time snack or even to munch throughout the day.
You can have Nankhatai
Cookies using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Nankhatai Cookies
- Prepare 1/2 cup of ghee.
- It's 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder.
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
- It's 1 cup of plain flour.
- It's 2 tablespoon of gram flour.
- You need 2 tablespoon of semolina.
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of cardamom powder or any essence.
- It's of Green and red food colour.
They also make a great gift for the holidays and I gifted them to my non-Indian friends. Nan khatai is an authentic Indian sweet and savory eggless cookie that can be easily prepared at home. In its authentic recipe, ghee, maida, rava (sooji), gram flour (besan) and sugar are used but nowadays it is generally prepared without using gram flour and rava. Jump to Recipe·Print Recipe Recipe for Nankhatai cookies / biscuit made in the oven.
Nankhatai Cookies instructions
- In a bowl add ghee and sugar and whisk until light and fluffy. Sieve the baking powder, flour, gram flour and semolina thoroughly and add to the whisked ghee and sugar..
- Make small balls and refrigerate for 1/2 an hour. Preheat oven at 180 degrees. Design it with food colour. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes or until light golden colour..
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Recipe made with maida and besan. Easy recipe to be made in a home OTG / oven / microwave convection oven. This recipe for Nankhatai Biscuits - Nankhatai Cookies is a very forgiving recipe and perfect for beginners. They are easy to make, very unique and always a crowd pleaser! This recipe comes from the cookbook I am working on with my Indian mother-in-law.