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.
Hi Aunty,
Love ur recipes,turns out perfect each time.
Can these be made without besan?
Hello Manjula Aunty,
last weekend i tried 2 of your recipes(Nan Khatai and Lemon rice) and they both turned out very delicious… thnk u sooo much for so tasty and easy recipes.. Nan Khatai recipe is simple awesome and very easy to cook..
Aunty , can u plz share some recipes for biscuits tht v can hav with tea.. like namkeen biscuits and some glucose biscuit or toast… smthng which we can hav with morning tea..
waiting for ur reply
thnx
Dimple
Hi,
I tried this recipe yesterday, and it turned out great…..My two year old loves these cookies
thankyou!
hi, My KHATAIS did’nt turn out good. i guess my suji was not fine …….also they turned out burnt…..and not tasting good
i’ev been tryg out yr recipe’s for months but always had good experience, don’t knw why they did’nt look anywhere close to biscuits….
Can you suggest what went wrong !!!
thank u
karishma
Hi Manjula,
I am now going to try this recipe. I should have written earlier but did not get around to do it. I have been trying your recipes for a long time- dessers, vegetables, daals etc. They are absolutely beautiful and me and my family absolutely enjoy these dishes. Boondi laddoos have become our favorites….people have started calling me a ‘Halwai’ In fatc the other day, I followed the ‘Sandesh’ recipe and sent it to my sis-in-law, who is a Bengali. Tell you she and her friends kept calling me for the recipe….they absolutely loved it.
So thanks for sharing your beautiful recipes
Hi Guys,
This is my first time.
I have just tried this – and it turned out pretty good. tip: mix the butter and sugar with the hands and then mix with the flour and make a dough like you would make a roti dough. then put in the oven for 20 mins – 220degrees celcius. watch the cooking. when u remove the naan khatay, it will feel soft and not crunchy at all – you must then leave it to cool until it hardens.. Hope this helps @ Jyoti
Hi,
I am eager to try this recipe but wondered if someone could tell what half cup butter equates to in terms of weight of butter? This is more precise …
Thanks
is the degrees in farenheight or celcius???????
Brummie,
Farenheight
Hi Manjula aunty!!!
I tried KHATAIS but i don’t know why they get destroyed.In 5-7 minutes they just get dark from the bottom….Will you please tell me my mistake….i tried them many times but this happens every time…and one more thing that do we have to off the oven after it comes to 375 degrees?
hi,i”m rozy.i make these many times.i have no problem.actually i notice one thing that we should not use non stick cookie sheet.we should use silver sheet{pizzasheet that has wholes in it, that is round one . i bought from wal mart.this is silver in colour.}i always make cookies and nan khatais in this.i tried in black non stick cookie sheet.that is not good.temparature should be 350.check after 6-7 minutes.do not leave in oven after they get little brown in colour.do not turn off oven.and check after every minute. i think thath will be thankfull to you.