Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, nankhatai- indian shortbread. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nankhatai- Indian shortbread is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Nankhatai- Indian shortbread is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
These beautiful little shortbread cookies are called Nankhatai, and are flavoured with cardamom and rose water. Nankhatai have a brilliantly mixed heritage. Indian Shortbread Cookies Recipe with an easy video tutorial**. '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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook nankhatai- indian shortbread using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nankhatai- Indian shortbread:
- Take 1/2 cup ghee + 1 tbsp extra
- Make ready 1/2 cup icing sugar
- Get 1 cup maida(wheat flour)
- Make ready 1/2 cup besan (gram flour or chickpea flour)
- Get 1/4 cup suji (semolina)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare Some chopped pistachios for garnishing
Well, this is my first ever cookie recipe on the blog. I just can't believe I haven't shared a single cookie recipe with. Nankhatai is an Indian shortbread cookie flavored with cardamom and usually topped with nuts. Popular as a snack for tea or coffee, it's light, crispy outside and soft crumbly inside.
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
Nankhatai is an Indian shortbread cookie flavored with cardamom and usually topped with nuts. Popular as a snack for tea or coffee, it's light, crispy outside and soft crumbly inside. Simple to make in just a few minutes! While making nankhatai always make sure to cream sugar and ghee well so that it gives nice crispiness to the biscuits. Make this yummy eggless bakery-style cookie at home using my simple recipe.
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