Nankhatai recipe | Eggless indian cookies-How to make in pressure cooker[Without oven]-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: India | Preparation Time: 5 min | Preparation & Cooking Time: 15-20 min | To Serve: 4 | Type: Sweet, dessert, diwali special sweet, holi

Ingredients

• All purpose flour / Maida / Wheat flour - 1 cup
• Rava [semolina]–3 tbsp
• Ghee or butter– 1/2 cup
• Green cardamom powder– 1 tbsp
• Sugar – 1/2 cup [Powdered]
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Curd – 1 tbsp
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Water/milk as needed

Preparation

• Take 5 littre pressure cooker, **Remove gasket & whistle from the pressure cooker lid
• Then place grid then preheat for 10 min.
• In a bowl add maida, rava, curd, ghee, baking powder, salt, cardamom powder & powdered sugar mix well.
• Add water / milk [Apr.2 tbsp] knead it make dough. Then cover it & refrigerate for 15 to 20 min.
• Then make balls out of the dough & flatten the balls.
• Place it on the pressure cooker container
• Then Place the pressure cooker container on pressure cooker grind.
• Close lid & cook for 15 min on low to medium flame.
• Once its ready carefully remove baking tray then un-mould & let it cool.
• Put it on airtight container use within 1 week.

Tips & variations

• For chocolate nankhatai add cocoa powder.
• For rose nankhatai add rose syrup
• For green nankhatai add spinach.
• For kesar nankhatai add saffron
• You can replace sugar with jaggery syrup.
• Add milk instead of water
• Add roasted coconut, raisins, cashews, roasted peanuts & sesame seeds.
• You can use khus khus[poppy seeds]
• You can add maida & wheat flour[50:50] or gram flour & wheat flour, wheat flour & almond flour etc..
• You can add curd / butter.
• You can make any shapes like half moon shape, flower shape, diamond shape etc.
• You can add vanilla essence or nutmeg powder.
• You can add dalda instead of ghee.

How to make Nankhatai-Step by step photos

Add sugar

Add cardamom pods, grind to fine powder

Powdered sugar ready

In a bowl add all purpose flour

Add rava

Add powdered sugar

Add baking powder

Add salt

Add curd

Add butter

Mix well

Add milk/water, mix well make semi soft dough

Dough ready, cover it, refrigerate for 15 to 20 min

Make lemon size balls

Flatten balls

Garnish with pistachios

Place it on pressure cooker, cook for 15 to 20 min

After 20 min, delicious nankhatai ready, let it cool

Crispy nankhatai ready

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