Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, nankathai/butter cookies/ghee biscuits. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nankathai/Butter cookies/Ghee Biscuits is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Nankathai/Butter cookies/Ghee Biscuits is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
These Nankhatai are made with all-purpose flour, sugar and ghee (clarified butter) or butter and spiced with cardamom and nutmeg. Due to the amount of ghee added in the dough, these nankhatai have a tender and crumbly texture. In this recipe I have added some besan (gram flour) and sooji (rava or semolina). Nankhatai are traditional Indian shortbread cookies made with all-purpose flour, semolina, sugar and ghee.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have nankathai/butter cookies/ghee biscuits using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Nankathai/Butter cookies/Ghee Biscuits:
- Prepare 1 cup Maida/ All purpose flour
- Take 1/2 cup ghee
- Get 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla Essence
- Get 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
- Get 2 tsp fine rava
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 25 Cherries (halved) or raisins
There are many variations of Nankhatai, some recipes use half suji" or semolina and half flour. They can be made in different flavours as well from plain to a selection of flavours of your choice - see my note below. Biscuit is a term used for a vari. In India, we get variety of butter biscuits in many flavours.
Steps to make Nankathai/Butter cookies/Ghee Biscuits:
- Take ghee and powdered sugar in a mixing bowl. Whisk till pale and creamy with a hand whisk.
- Add rava, cardamom powder, salt. Sieve flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well with a spatula and form into a soft dough.
- Take a small portion and roll between palms and press a little flat on a baking tray. Leave space between each cookies to expand. Press cherries/rasins in the middle of each cookie.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 15 minutes. It will be soft when taken out of oven and hardens on cooling. Cool on a wire rack and store in airtight container.
Biscuit is a term used for a vari. In India, we get variety of butter biscuits in many flavours. This one is the basic ghee biscuit which we can make it with three ingredients which is readily available all the time. Yesterday I spoke to my friend Kani and was asking about what she is gonna make for this Diwali. Once the nuts stick to the dough ball, gently press the nuts on the cookie dough so it adheres well.
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