Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, naan khatai. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. Nankhatai recipe - Delicious, light & crisp eggless cookies made with flour, ghee, cardamom powder and sugar.

Naan khatai is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Naan khatai is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have naan khatai using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Naan khatai:

1. Prepare All purpose flour 1 Cup (maida)
2. Prepare 4 tbsp Baisan
3. Take 3/4 tsp baking soda
4. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking powder
5. Make ready 1/2 Cup Ghee
6. Take 1/2 Cup Ground sugar
7. Take 1 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
8. Prepare Egg yellow to brush

This Naan Khatai is a delightfully Crispy, Buttery Cardamom Shortbread Cookie, that will make anytime tea time in your home. South African Indian families have been making many versions of Naan Khatai for generations. Naan Khatai is India's very own desi biscuit which is made in an open oven (you can make it in your OTG or cooker or convection oven also). It is soft and melt-in-the mouth biscuit and has a unique taste with an unmistakable aroma of desi ghee, which distinguishes it from other cookies.

Instructions to make Naan khatai:

1. Method: Mix all the above ingredients except egg, shape the nan khatais, brush them with egg yellow and bake them at 180 C for 12-15 min. Let them cool then - remove from the tray.
2. Notes: - 1. You don't need any expertise to bake these cookies. - 2. You are not suppose to knead it like roti dough, just mix dry ingredients first then add ghee and bring together to form a dough. - 3. You can make any size it's totally up to you. - 4. You can use different kinds of nuts like almonds, pistachio or peanuts on top and inside of cookies. - 5. Preferably use ghee for a better result alternatively use butter, oil will not give the classic taste of nan khatai.
3. 6. Don't use icing sugar as it already has corn flour in it. - 7. Ensure you don't over baked them, when you see the edges are firm and lightly browned that means that cookies are done. - 8. They are suppose to be soft and melty when pull out from the oven but get little hard after cooling down. - 9. Accurate measurement is very important. - 10. Take ghee as it is, you don't need to melt it. - 11. Preheating and oven temperature is very important. If your oven is not hot then cookies may tend to expand.

Nan Khatai recipe is liked by everyone. Children and elders love to eat Nan Khatai with tea or as a snack. Nan khatai recipe comes from the Persian word Nan which means bread and an Afghan word khatai which means biscuit. Although the biscuits have been supposedly originated from Surat, yet the evidence is not clear as it is equally popular in. Nankhatai (Hindi: नानख़ताई, Urdu: نان خطائی ‎) are shortbread biscuits, originating from the Indian subcontinent, popular in Northern India and Pakistan.

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