Naan Khatai

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup all purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
• 1/3 cup fine sooji or semolina
• 1/2 cup gram flour (besan)
• 1/5 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon green cardamom seed coarsely powder (ilaichi)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon sliced almond
• 1 tablespoon sliced pistachio

Method:

1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degree centigrade.

2. In a bowl, mix the all-purpose flour, gram flour, sooji, baking soda and cardamom powder and set aside.

3. Let the butter come to the room temperature (butter should be soft not melted)

4. Add butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat for two to three minutes until light and fluffy.

5. Add the flour mix to butter and sugar mixture and knead them together to make smooth dough.

6. Divide the dough into about 24 equal parts and make them into balls.

7. Press each ball between your palms lightly; every piece should be about 3/4″ in thickness.With a sharp knife softly draw a tic-tac-toe design on the top and put few pieces of almonds and pistachios and press them into the dough gently.

8. Put Nan khatai on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Each should be separated from other by 1 inch or so as they spread on baking. Bake at 180 degree centigrade for about 15 minutes and 220 degree centigrade for 3-4 minutes (if you want a little crunchy one ) or until Nan khatai are lightly golden brown.

9. After they are lightly golden brown remove the cookie sheet from the oven.  Let the Nan Khatais cool down for two to three minutes before taking them off the cookie sheet.