Wheat flour Nankhatai -How to make [Without oven]-Step by step photos & Video

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

Wheat flour nankhatai is simple and healthy, homemade crunchy biscuits. No oven required. We can make it in pressure cooker. No maida added, No egg added. This is perfect cookie with only wheat flour, gram flour, corn flour. Baking powder gives perfect texture. But one main important thing and trick for perfect biscuit is'Dont knead the dough too much'. Once gluten developed this biscuit will become hard. My mother and mother in law always making this with little bit rava. They are always making it with simple ingredients Like oil, vanaspathi, ghee, homemade butter and jaggery. They dont like maida. Instead of maida and corn flour my mother's original recipe contains rice flour, ragi, pearl millet, thinai, varagu, & samai flour.

Ingredients

• Wheat flour - 1 cup
• Gram flour [besan] - 1/4 cup
• Rava [semolina]–1 tbsp
• Ghee or butter– 1/2 cup
• Green cardamom powder– 1 tbsp
• Sugar – 1/2 cup [Powdered]
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Milk - 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup [Or as required to make dough]
• Pistachios- 1 tbsp for garnishing

Preparation

• Take 5 littre pressure cooker, **Remove gasket & whistle from the pressure cooker lid
• Then place grid then preheat for 10 min on low flame.
• In a bowl add wheat flour, gram flour, rava, baking powder, ghee, cardamom powder & powdered sugar mix well.
• Add Milk, knead it make dough.
• Then make balls out of the dough & flatten the balls.
• Flatten, make cavity then add pista
• Place it on the tray.
• Then Place the tray on pressure cooker grind.
• Close lid & cook for 30 min on medium flame.
• Once its ready carefully remove baking tray then un-mould & let it cool for 5 min.
• 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 Wheat flour nankhataivideo

How to make Wheat flour Nankhatai-Step by step photos

Perfect Atta nankhattai

Take aluminium pressure cooker, place grid

Close, pre-heat for 10 to 15 min on low flame

Grease plate with oil

Sprinkle flour

Evenly coat, remove extra flour

In a bowl add wheat flour

Add gram flour

Add rava

Add powdered sugar

Add baking powder

Mix well

Add cardamom powder

Add ghee

Mix well

Add milk, make semi-soft dough

Dough is ready

You can refrigerate or immediately make cookies

Divide the dough into equal size balls

Flatten

Make cavity

Add pistachio

Place it in a plate

Place it in a pre-heated pressure cooker

close lid, cook for 30 min on medium flame

After 30 min, remove it from pressure cooker, let it cool

Perfect crunchy nankhattai cookies ready

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