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.
one stick butter = 1/2 cup butter
hi aunty
thx for ur great recipes.
Hi Manjulaji,
This is a ‘fun’tastic website!! I baked for the first time today and tried the nan-khatai receipe and it turned out really good. However I must let you in on a secret here – I mistakenly added maize flour instead of gram flour since both of them look alike and guess what – it still turned out to be yummy!!
Thanks once again and keep it going…
If you have a receipe for salted biscuits, plz do share that. Thank you.
Hello aunty I like biscuits and I tried this recipe, I really appreciate you.
If u know how to make biscuits having test like crack jack or 50-50 please tell us.
Regards,
Trupti
Namasthey Auntyji!
I tried this recipe and it turned out well. I have a request – when you mention oven temperatures, please mention “F” or “C” (fahrenheit or centigrade). I looked for 375 deg in my oven, but the temperature only went up to 250 deg. I then realised that you are quoting in fahrenheit and my oven is in centigrade (in the UK).
Thank you.
Hallo Manjula ji.I tried this recipe it was really nice.i want to know how to make soan papdi? thanks for ur wonderful recipe and waiting for ur reply.. Regards..
I love biscuits and will surley try out this recipe. I really have to appreciate you for being dynamic to do things at your age. Keep it up manjula ji
Hello aunty ji
I really like Nan khatai biscuits, i tried to make it and the ratio of ingredients were same as u told in video but i don’t know why after 5 min. in oven ( @375 degree) all the cookies got melted,flattened and mixed with each other. Can u tell me why it happened like so. I would also like to know ration as in whole cups. like I’m wondering if I can use 1 cup of Maida,1 cup of sooji & 1/2 cup of besan.Cuz it was smelling too like besan.thanks again for ur wonderful recipe and waiting for ur reply..
Regards..
hello munjula auntie. i tried this recipe but it was too besani, the ratio of gram flour to the other flours the totally off.can you please suggest a substitute for gram flour. thanks
Hi Rosy, Try with whole wheat or all purpose flour.
Can I use brown sugar instead of regular sugar? I usually do not buy the regular sugar
Hi Rupa, I have never made this using brown sugar but try it and let me know how it was.