Nankhatai

- Submitted by Dahlia

(Nankatai, Butter Biscuits, Eggless Cookies)

Recipe For Nankhatai

Ingredients

• All Purpose Flour (maida) - 1 cup
• Unsalted Butter/Ghee - 1/2 cup
• Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
• Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - a pinch
• Pistachios / Raisins / Cashews / Almond - for garnish

Method

1. Take a mixing bowl with the room temperature butter in it.  Add the powdered sugar to it and cream together till the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
2. Sift all the dry ingredients (flour, cardamom powder, baking powder and salt) into a seperate bowl.
3. Add this to the creamed butter mixture little at a time and keep mixing. Knead it to form a soft dough. Cover the dough and let it rest in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 C). Make small gooseberry sized balls of the dough. Smoothen the balls by rolling in between your palm. You can also use a cookie cutter to shape the cookies.
5. Place each ball in a cookie sheet. Leave some space in between as the cookies will expand when it bakes. If you want to make it more rich, press a pistachio or raisin or cashew or almond on top of the balls gently.
6. Bake at 300 degrees for 12-15 minutes until the bottom of the cookies turn light golden brown.
7. Remove from the oven and gently transfer the cookies to a cooling rack. The cookies will be very soft at this stage.
8. After it cools completely, store in an air tight container for up to a month. Serve as a snack with a cup of tea.

Variations

• You can make ragi biscuits by using ragi flour instead of all purpose flour.

  

• You can also add some 1 tbsp of cocoa powder along with the flour and make chocolate cookies

  

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• For crunchy biscuits, replace 1 cup flour by 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 cup of rava and 1/4 cup crushed nuts.

  

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Comment by Alpana Khare
Hi ! can you please tell me what should be 1. mode 2. Tempreture 3. cooking time, while we use a microwave to bake these biscuits.
ur quick response would be much appreciated.

Reply :-
Hi Alpana, I haven't made these in the microwave. So I'm not able to help you with the time and temperature. Sorry about that.

Comment by saumya rastogi
Shall I make dough with water

Reply :-
You don't need any extra water to make the dough.

Comment by ANGEL SIL SIL
super taste immmmmmmm wawoooooo

Reply :-
Thank you.

Comment by amar kumar
i have simple microwave n't convection then how can prepare this tastier reciepe

Reply :-
I've think you can make it in microwave but I'm not sure of the timings. You can give it a trywith 4 or 5 minutes initially. You can also try the cooker method as recommended by Sandhya in the comments below.

Comment by liki dharshueli gud
itzzzzzz reli reli awesome !!!!!!!!!!!
yummy de taste was reli gud
i enjoyed it !!!!! :) :)

Reply :-
Thank You.

Comment by sandhya Thangavelu
I read the above message, actually one of my friend used Idly pan, instead of Oven. she pour the sand inside the pan and closed the lid, keep it in low flame.then she will place the mix along with the bowl, and do the same. keep it for 20 mins but you should open the lid after it becomes very cool. try it.

Reply :-
Thanks Sandhya for your tips.

Comment by Janani Thiru
instead of ovan how can we use cooker?

Reply :-
Hi Janani, I haven't tried making cookies in the pressure cooker till now. I'm really not able to help you.
If you are really desperate to try, may be you can make a very small batch of the dough and cook the cookies on the lowest heat for 8-10 minutes without pressure. Since the heat comes from the bottom, the bottom may get browned faster before the top cooks.
If you try and it comes out successfully, do let us know. It may be helpful for many viewers who do not have oven.