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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..
thank you aunty… for sharing all recipes
can i use ghee instead of butter..plz suggest me…
Hi Latha,
use 1 tablespoon less ghee then butter.
respected mam,kindly tell me that r cookies to be baked in grill or convection mode?
Use Convection mode. Grill mode will burn them.
Hi Aunty,
First of all I would like to thank you for sharing so many recipes with all of us.
Aunty, I would like to ask one think can we prepare nan khatai without the use of oven?
Hello auntyji,
Thankyou very much for your great recipes! my mother was absolutely delighted when we found this recipe for nan khatai and we tried it instantly – which was a great success! All of you other recipes and your hard work at making them is also worth commending.
The best part is that even we dont eat onion & garlick, soo all your recipes are just fantabulous.
Thankyou again!!!!
Hi Manjula Aunty,
I tried Naan Khatai, in oven i kept the tray on middle rack for 10 minutes at 170 C still the naan khatai got burnt from the bottom i need to scratch from the bottom, otherwise it was great. Can u please give any suggestion for that.
I also tried Bengali rasgulla that were ok but not much spongy i followed the same recipe of urs is it because there should be right amount of water in the paneer when we make or something alse
can i do something for that Please suggest
Thanks for other dessert recipes too
ur recipes are great even not in India i can make in Australia all these favourite north indian recipes
Hi Manjula
I tried your nan khatai .It was awesome . Everyone loved it Thankyou
I tried your recipe today. They were just superb. My hubby and son loved it. Had an unexpected guest at home right in time. They too liked it a lot.
Ur recipes are too good……… Thanks
hello aunty,
i tried nankhatai recipe. it was so yummy & delicious. all credit goes to you only. thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Aunty,
I tried your besan laddoo recipe. Thanks to you it turned out very nice. I have one question for you, i.e when you say ‘cups’- how do you convert it in gms. 1 cup = how many grams?
hey i tried this recipe thx aunty it came out really yummy…..m so glad that i tried