Nan Khatai - Traditional Pakistani / Indian Cookies

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1   INGREDIENTS

• 12 tablespoons cake flour
• 4 tablespoons semolina flour
• 7 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 10 tablespoons butter (plain or clarified)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence or extract
• 12 whole almonds for garnish (optional)
• 1 egg, beaten (for egg wash)

2   COOKING DIRECTIONS

1. In a large mixing bowl beat together the sugar with the butter until fluffy.
2. Stir in the vanilla and both flours (cake flour and semolina flour) to make a soft dough.
3. Pinch off 12 pieces of dough to make 12 balls.
4. Flatten balls between the palms of your hands to form small rounds about 1" (inch) in thickness.
5. With your index finger make a little depression in the centre of each cookie and place an almond in it.
6. Brush each cookie lightly with eggwash.
7. Bake cookies on a greased cookie sheet at 190 degrees C (375 F) for 15 minutes.
8. Cool cookies completely on cookie sheet or cooling rack.
9. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.

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1. cookies are good

   on Nov 2 2009 10:40AM Report Abuse Guest

2. Cake flour is kind of more airy flour use for baking cakes or tart dough only. Cake flour has less gluten in it so it make cake more airy and soft. Use of cake flour in this nan khatai recipe makes more sense bcz it will give cookies crispy texture and when you will eat it it will melt in your mouth right away. If you dont have cake flour available you use regular flour and make sure its been sifted twice. Have fun baking .........:)

   on Oct 31 2009 5:45PM Report Abuse Guest

3. what is samolina flour? is cake flour is meada

   on Oct 25 2009 6:36PM Report Abuse Guest

4. instead of egg wash,what can be used,if we don"t take eggs.

   on Oct 25 2009 1:32PM Report Abuse Guest

5. what is cake flour plc let me kno

   on Sep 28 2009 4:04PM Report Abuse Guest

6. very simple and interesting !

   on Sep 7 2009 2:19AM Report Abuse Guest

7. toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

   on Aug 28 2009 7:30AM Report Abuse Guest

8. its so nice and tasty well i like it and my parents also like this....plz keep on try and tell easy and quick food reicepes...thnx alot 4 giving this nice reipes inshallah i try to make more 4rm this site by take care Allah Hafiz.......

   on Aug 15 2009 4:18PM Report Abuse Guest

9. Semolina = Suji or Soji

   on Aug 2 2009 9:43PM Report Abuse Guest

10. What is semolina flour

    on Jul 27 2009 5:14AM Report Abuse Guest

11. can we use oil instead of butter

    on Jul 26 2009 3:30PM Report Abuse Guest

12. i think cake flour means maida

    on Jul 22 2009 3:02AM Report Abuse Guest

13. please can someone tell me what is cake flour. is it regular flour.

    on Jul 13 2009 3:01PM Report Abuse Guest

14. i want to try donas recipe can u tell me know

    on Jul 2 2009 8:22AM Report Abuse Guest

15. Hi, I want to try to make these cookies but I noticed that it was given only 3 stars? Can someone who gave it a low review please clarify why? Thanks!

    on Jun 20 2009 10:20PM Report Abuse Guest

16. Maryam thank you for giving cookies recipe.i made these cookies. it is very nice and sweet.just like you.my mom like this cookies.and my full family like these cookies.but my sister is not there she just like cookies.

    on Jun 2 2009 8:02AM Report Abuse Guest

17. can we make these eggless please answer

    on May 21 2009 7:17PM Report Abuse Guest

18. well i'v never tried them. Are they good

    on May 19 2009 4:13PM Report Abuse Guest

19. Thank you SO much!!! My mom made these when I was in Pakistan and I have never been able to forget them! So glad you posted this recipe.

    on May 10 2009 1:44PM Report Abuse Guest

20. what is samolina flour

    on May 9 2009 2:38PM Report Abuse Guest

21. can we use a regular flour or all purpose flour instead of a cake flour?

    on Apr 14 2009 7:56AM Report Abuse Guest

22. can cake flour be replaced by regular flour?

    on Mar 16 2009 1:06AM Report Abuse Guest

23. My kids love the nan khatais and they ask me to make it more frequently.

    on Mar 3 2009 2:52AM Report Abuse Guest