Besan Cookies / Besan Nankhatai

Besan Cookies/Besan Nankhatai : After started baking, I'm always searching for easy bake recipes and recipes without all purpose flour. Here is a nankhatai/besan cookies recipe without all purpose flour. Freshly baked cookie with Indian flavor is just heaven.

Baking time:20 min
Yields: 20

Ingredients needed: 
Gram Flour / Besan  - 1 cup
Granulated Sugar - ½ cup
Ghee - 1/4 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup
Baking Powder  - ½ tsp
Cardamom - 2
Pistachio nuts(Optional), thinly sliced - 5
Salt - A pinch


Procedure:
Powder the sugar with cardamom and keep it aside.

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Prepare a baking sheet by lining parchment paper.
Mix the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside.
In a wide bowl, add butter, ghee and powdered sugar. Cream them with a whisk till it becomes soft and fluffy.
Then add the dry flour mixture and knead them into a soft and pliable dough. Instead of ghee, you can also use butter. But the aroma of ghee in the cookie goes very well with the cardamom flavor.
Divide the dough into gooseberry size balls. Press them between your palm. So they become slightly flatten. Arrange them on the prepared baking tray.
Now place few pieces of pistachio nuts at the center of the cookies.
Bake them at 350F for 15-18 mins or till they turns into brown.
Take it out from the oven and allow it to completely cool down on a wire rack.

Notes:

You can save this in air-tight container for upto 2 weeks.
The baking time varies from oven to oven.
 Instead of ghee, you can also use butter. But the aroma of ghee in the cookie goes very well with the cardamom flavor.

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