I
am very passionate about baking. But most of the baking recipes use maida. I
started searching alternatives to maida. I came across nankhati recipe which
used besan flour instead of maida. I tried this recipe and it has come out very
well.
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Recipe Cuisine : North Indian | Recipe
Category: Baking | Source: rasoikaswaad
Preparation Time: 5 mins | Cooking Time: 20 mins | Yields: 20 cookies
Ingredients:
Bengal Gram Flour / Besan / Kadalai
Maavu
|
1 cup
|
Granulated Sugar
|
½ cup
|
Butter (at room temperature)
|
½ cup
|
Baking Powder
|
½ tesp
|
Cardamom
|
2
|
Pistachio nuts
|
5
|
Salt
|
A pinch
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Procedure:
1. Powder the sugar with cardamom and
keep it aside.
2. Chop the pistachio nuts into very
fine pieces.
3. Sieve the besan flour with baking
powder for 2-3 times.
4. Pre-heat the oven for 10 mins at 2000
C .
5. In a wide bowl, add butter and
powdered sugar. Cream them with your palm or till it becomes soft and fluffy.
6. Then add the sieved flour mixture
and salt. Knead them into a soft and
pliable dough. You should not add anything like milk. This quantity butter is
enough to make smooth dough.
7. Divide the dough into gooseberry
size balls. Press them between your palm. So they become slightly flatten.
Arrange them on the ungreased baking tray.
8. Now place few pieces of pistachio
nuts at the center of the cookies.
9. Bake them at 1800C for
15-18 mins or till they turns into brown.
10. Take it out from the oven and allow
it to cool down. Store it in a air tight
container for later use.
Tasty and aromatic cookies are ready to serve.
4 comments:
Nankatai with besan looks so beautiful and tempting. Wish I could grab some :-)
Delicious cookies!
Do we need to roast besan
@ rashmi raman: no need to roast the flour.
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