Description
A melt0in-mouth crumbly cookies or lemony pistachio Nankhatai
Ingredients
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- 1 cup (240 ml) All purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cup (360 ml) powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) semolina
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) fine Pistachio powder
- 3/4 cup or little less butter/ghee
- 1 tbsp. (15 ml) yogurt/curd
- 1 tbsp. (15 ml) coarse pistachio powder to garnish
- A few saffron strands (optional)
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- A few drops of lemon extract or 1/4 tsp. lemon zest
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C for 10 minutes.
- Add flour, semolina and pistachio powder in a large vessel and mix well.
- Take another vessel and add butter/ghee, powder sugar, baking powder and yogurt in it. Whisk all the ingredients for 10 minutes till the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry flour mix, add lemon extract or lemon zest, saffron strands if using and knead all into smooth and soft dough.
- Take out small piece of dough and roll it into small balls, flatten it slightly and press a little of coarsely ground pistachio powder in the center.
- Make all the cookies in the similar way and arrange them in a baking tray leaving a little gap between each cookie.
- Bake the lemony shortbread at 180°C for about 15 minutes or till the sides start to turn golden. These goodies will be mostly white in color when fully baked.
Notes
- If you wish to skip the yogurt in the recipe, increase the butter in it to form a soft dough.
- While rolling the cookies you will find lots of cracks in it, ignore it if it does not hamper the baking process and retain the shape.
- If you wish to make saffron Nankhatai, just dissolve a few strands of saffron in warm milk and add it to the dough.
- Try a variation of orange Nankhatai using orange extract or orange zest.
- Chickpea flour is also added to the flour mix to make Nankhatai, replace semolina with chickpea flour (besan).
- These cookies stay good for many days and make a perfect gift option.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Baking
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 cookies
- Calories: 180