Nankhatai (Without Oven)
Ingredients:
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Besan or Gram flour - 1/2 cup
Maida or All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Ghee or Clarified butter - 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder of Elaichi powder - 1/4 tspn
Chironji or Charoli or any nuts of your choice - 1 tspn
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Method:
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Take an aluminium vessel and place a ring or a stand inside it and cover and keep on high flame.
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In a bowl take ghee and powdered sugar and whisk it well till the colour changes slightly.
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Add cardamom powder and besan and maida and knead into one dough.
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Add 1 to 2 tspn of melted ghee if needed to make a proper dough.
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Make balls out of the dough and flatten them to give a nankhatai shape.
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Place chironji in center and press gently.
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In a cake tin or pressure cooker tin apply little ghee and place all the nankhatais.
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Keep the tin in big vessel and reduce the flame to sim.
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Bake for 15-20 mins.
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Cool and serve.
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