Naan Khatai

Naan Khatai is authentic sweet cookies very famous and generally made in North India.  Everyone including kids, young and old alike naan khatai. This is so yummy and melt in mouth.

The word Naan originally derived from Persian meaning shortbread and khataii from Afganistaan meaning biscuits.

This recipe of naan khatai is easy and can be made in home easily using simple ingredients. Basically Naan Khatai is made using flour, gram flour and semolina but now a days it is generally made by flour only. Here in my recipe I used flour, gram flour and semolina with butter. It can be made by ghee also but it tastes heavenly using either ghee or butter.
This can be made in microwave, gas oven, electric oven, OTG and on gas stove too. You can make it using either of these but first you must have full idea of that appliances. I have been working with gas oven so I share this recipe of gas oven.

I often bake naan khatai home as this is my husband favourite cookies. Recently few days back I baked naan khatai and took photos of that immediately and posted it on Facebook. Response was so great and several people asked recipe. So I thought of sharing this recipe.
Try this recipe your home and serve it to your guests, friends and family. As festival time is going on now. Make naan khatai and gift it to your friends and relatives.

 Ingredients:

1. All Purpose Refine Flour:1 cup
2.  Gram Flour: 1/4 cup
3. Semolina:1/4 cup
4. Butter: 80 to 90 gram (at room temperature)
5. Powder Sugar: 3/4 cup
6. Small Cardamon powder: 1 tsp
7. Baking powder: 1 tsp
8. Pistachio: For garnishing naan khatai

Method of Preparation:

1. Take a bowl and put all purpose flour, gram Flour, semolina, baking powder, Cardamon powder and mix well.Keep this bowl aside.
2. Take another bowl. Put butter and sugar and beat with beater until it becomes cream texture.

3.   Add dry ingredients of other bowl and fold it with the help of spatula and make a dough. Don't knead this dough.

4.  Take pistacho and roughly crush it in small pieces.
5.  Take dough and divide it into 12 equal parts. Take one part and make round shape using palm and hand.
6.  Repeat same process with other parts of dough.
7.  Stick some broken pieces of pistachio on the top of round shape.

8.  Keep these round shape in freeze for at least one hour
9.  Preheat the oven for 10 minutes.
10. Line up baking tray with parchment paper.
11. Place all round shapes over baking tray.
12. Bake it for 7 to 8 minutes at 180 degree centigrade.

13.  When baking is done. Leave the naan khatai on baking tray inside the oven for 5 minutes then cool it on cooling rack.
14.  Store it in airtight container and enjoy the taste of naan khatai upto month.

Note:

1. You can make naan khatai with ghee also instead of butter.
2. Baking temperature and time depends on oven and it is different from oven to oven. So first you know your oven well.