Chocolate Nankhatai
Nankhatai is a popular Indian, eggless cookie. I made a batch of these for Diwali using a recipe from
Manjula's kitchen on You Tube. But I changed it up a bit for half the batch by adding cocoa and turning them into chocolate nankhatais. Here's how I made them:
1/3 cup maida (all purpose flour)
1/3 cup fine semolina
1/2 cup gram flour
A pinch of baking soda (Less than 1/8th tsp)
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp cocoa pwd.
1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened at room temperature)
2/3 cup powdered sugar
Almonds for garnish
Preheat oven to 350c.
Mix the first 6 ingredients well.
Make sure the sugar is of fine texture, you can pwd it in a blender if needed. Blend the sugar and butter (I used a blender for this) until soft & fluffy. Then mix the flour mixture to the butter/sugar mix and knead gently into a soft dough. Break into small round balls. Flatten each slightly. Top with half an almond. Place these on a greased baking tray and bake for about 12 mins.
I have had varying degrees of success making nankhatais in the past, but really loved how these chocolate ones came out.
I also made a batch of regular nankhatais using the above recipe. For making these, simply omit the vanilla essence and cocoa pwd from the above recipe. Add 1/4 tsp cardamon pwd instead. You can top the plain nankhatai with pistas, cashews, almonds or charolis. You can also add few strands of saffron to give them a good flavor. Here are my plain and chocolate nankhatais.
These Chocolate and Plain Nankhatais go to the
JFI - Diwali Festival event at Cooking 4 All Seasons. JFI is the brainchild of
Indira of Mahanandi.
Oh, and before I forget, these nankhatais go very well with a cup of steaming hot chocolate.
This easy, single serving of hot chocolate is just off the box of Hershey's Cocoa pwd. Here's how I make it:
1 cup milk - microwaved for 2 mins.
2 tsp sugar
2-3 tsp cocoa pwd
A pinch of salt
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
Mix the sugar, cocoa & salt in a large drinking mug. Slowly our the hot milk, stirring gently all the time. Add the vanilla, stir and enjoy.
This easy hot chocolate is also off to the FIC - Brown event at TongueTicklers.
8 comments:
Wow..Nankhatai s with hot chocolate..Delicious !
This looks so delicious love it...will give it a try soon :-)
I too enjoy cooking from videos as it helps you know the consistency etc. better. The chocolate must have added a delicious twist! Thanks for sending them to FIC:)
Nankhatai's are my fav tea time snack.....they look perfect and turned out well
love nankhatai...yours look really cute need to make them soon!
Thanks for the encouraging words girls. I have so far made 3 batches of these nankhatais over the past 2 weeks. They seem to disappear pretty fast!
wow nankhatais with chocolate. must have tasted very nice. I too like watching cooking videos.
Hi Supriya ,thanks for coming over to my blog. Your nankatais look yum.
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