Nan Khatai
September 30th, 2008 filed under Desserts
Nan khatai is an egg-less light and crispy biscuit that’s perfect to serve with tea or coffee.
Recipe makes about 24 Nan khatai.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup all purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
- 1/3 cup fine sooji or semolina
- 1/2 cup gram flour (besan)
- Pinch of baking soda (a little less than 1/8 teaspoon)
- 1/4 teaspoon green cardamom seed coarsely powder (ilaichi)
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon sliced almond
- 1 tablespoon sliced pistachio
Method
- Pre heat the oven to 375 degree.
- In a bowl, mix the all-purpose flour, gram flour, sooji, baking soda and cardamom powder and set aside.
- Let the butter come to the room temperature (butter should be soft not melted)
- Add butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat for two to three minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add the flour mix to butter and sugar mixture and knead them together to make smooth dough.
- Divide the dough into about 24 equal parts and make them into balls.
- Press each ball between your palms lightly; every piece should be about 3/4″ in thickness.
- With a sharp knife softly draw a tic-tac-toe design on the top and put few pieces of almonds and pistachios and press them into the dough gently.
- Put Nan khatai on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for about 13 to 15 minutes or until Nan khatai are lightly gold brown.
- After they are lightly golden brown remove the cookie sheet from the oven. Let the Nan Khatais cool down for two to three minutes before taking them off the cookie sheet.
This is an easy recipe. What do you think?
Nan khatai make a great homemade gift for holidays. Your friends and relatives will love it.
Quantity of butter in video aunty is using cannot be half cup..aunty please let us know how much gram it is?
Hi Aunty
I tried these nankhatais today, but faced 2 problems–
cookies came out flat, and did not puff up like yours did. What could have gone wrong? I followed every step just as ygot burnt from thou mentioned.
Also, they burnt from the bottom really fast.
Thanks
hello what do you mean with 1/3 cup or 2/3 sugar ??? =)
Rani,
2/3 cup of sugar.
hi can we use Magirine instead of butter…wil it make nan kathai had on getting cool at roon temp.
Neha, butter is good, ghee is better, coconut oil is best for health & you will not get fat from it. Margarine is bad for health & was introduced in about the late 50′s. Soon after people had more heart problems. I am nutritionist/herbalist.
Namaste!
Dear Robert,
Thank you so much. I did some R&D from site and came across the health benefits of coconut oil. I will definately use Coconut oil from now on. Would like to have your email address for some advice in future.
Regards,
Rachita
Hello aunty
Can I Use wheat flour to make nan khattai or should i use only maida.
Hello Aunty,
Thank you so much for helping us making varieties of dishes. I tried nan-khatai today but unfortunately it got burnt in 5min. and it melted in the sheet. I don’t know where was the problem may be my butter was little more soft because dough did not turned out thick it was very soft. Please suggest how much time the oven should be pre-heated.
Thanks,
Priyanka
plz can u suggest me abt. the time used for nan khatai in microwave oven. and also for how much time oven is to b pre heated. i have tried dis recipe with same ingredients bt. dese burnt frm lower side in just 7-8 min.
i have used microwave oven very first time. so if possible plz suggest me how to use it properly. and also give me in farenheit. thanks
Thanks Aunty.. I tried it too today and it was absolutely perfect
hello aunty
today i have tried nankhatai recpe. i used the ingredients of same amt. as u said bt when i made dough its not sticky may b bcz of more butter and also the nan khatai’s are burnt frm bottom. plz cud u tell me wats the problem nd also plz suggest me oven is to b pre heated for how much time?
Dear Manjula Aunty,
I tried this recipe today and it turned out awesome!!
… Thanks for your step by step instructions!
It is for the first time that I tried to make any sort of biscuit and I was surprised to see the result myself
I tried lot of your recipes and especially I love all your dessert recipes.
I am writing to you from Germany and it is very difficult to find good Indian Desserts here… your recipes are life saver!!!
My sincere thanks to you for all the lovely recipes and your efforts!!
Best Regards,
Neha