How to Make Nan Khatai | Butter Biscuit/Cookie

The place I lived in my childhood, there was a bakery nearby our house and every Thursday they bake this ridiculously delicious cookies and it smelled so good, the whole lane smells awesome. Till date I could feel that aroma. Wow! what a smell it was. Flavor to be remembered. At last I learned the recipe and thought to give a try and it came out so good. Nan Khatai/ Butter Biscuit/ Butter cookie are light and fluffy and yummy nicely melts in your mouth. And it is one of the easy and quick recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth. Yes, it is not for the healthy conscious people but, once in a while to taste the divine is not bad isn't it? J But, you can make little healthy using wheat flour instead of all purpose flour or combination of both the flour. 

Nan Khatai

Ingredients:

Unsalted Butter – ½ cup (1 stick)

Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp

Nutmeg powder – 1/4 tsp

Powdered Sugar – ½ cup

All Purpose Flour/Maida – 1 cup

Baking Powder – 1/4 tsp

Salt – 1 tsp

Method:

Step 01) Keep the butter to room temperature till soft (not so watery). It should cut easily by spoon and mix it nicely

 

Step 02) Add the powdered sugar little at a time and mix it nicely

Step 03) Add the cardamom powder and nut Meg powder and mix it. This gives a nice flavor to the biscuit

 

Step 04) Take separate bowl and add All purpose flour, baking powder and salt stir it nicely so that everything incorporate nicely with flour

Step 05) Add the flour to cream sugar mixture little at a time and knead it nicely just like chapatti/Indian bread dough. It is lot softer than regular dough, because of butter.

 

Step 06) Wrap it in a plastic sheet and let it rest for 20 minutes. (All the species and salt should be nicely marinate to the dough so it is important that dough should rest)

 

Preheat your oven into 300 degree F

Step 07) Open the dough from the wrapper and give one more knead

Step 08) Take a baking tray use parchment paper or foil. Grease the foil with butter for easy removing of the biscuits/cookies. (For parchment paper no need of greasing)

Step 09) Divide the dough into small balls (size is how you like them to bite) round them into nice ball shape. Make sure there is no crack in them.

Step 10) Place them on a tray and make sure to give enough distance between each cookie.

Step 11) Garnish with pistachio. Take few pieces and just press on top of the cookies

Step 12) Bake them in oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Keep eye on them you just need light golden brown.

Step 13) Remove the tray from the oven and let it cool down for 10 minutes and Enjoy 

 

Note:

• If you use salted butter you can skip the salt
• Always try to use the nut Meg as whole and grate them whenever the recipe calls for it. Ready made Nut Meg Powder loose its flavor easily on shelf
• If there is a crack in the balls it opens wide after baking. So make sure diligently give them nice round shape
• Set the rack in middle of the oven. Don’t place the tray up or down or side to the heating coils. Always keep it in center.

Butter Biscuit

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