Nankhatai / Indian Butter Cookies
I have not grown up eating cookies but biscuits or as we Indians call it BISCOOT, had always been an integral part of our life, mostly because biscuits are crucial while drinking tea for adults and milk for children, and when in hurry a small packet of biscuit will save you from being late from eating a proper meal or breakfast. As both of my parents worked, sometimes I found myself carrying small packets of cream biscuits and bananas in my tiffin box. Not a very tempting lunchbox for a school kid but it did the job of keeping me full until I came home to a proper cooked meal.
My father was not very keen on taking us to the tea stall and so we had very little exposure to the tea stall or bakery style cookies, but we were friendly with parle-g, Britannia digestives and other cream biscuits. But sometimes we found this small packs of nankhatais in the kitchen and after distributing them to all the family members, that packet usually did not survive for another serving for anyone. So while we had to be content with one or two of these intensely delicious buttery cookies, I always craved for more.
But eventually as life went on I forgot about them and stayed happy with the American cookies. But there is only so much you can forget and childhood memories are not one of them. So here I am, after trying and testing a lot many nankhatai recipes, sharing the one that has actually worked for me. Don’t be scared about the quantity of ghee, it is the ghee that gives the cookies the taste and aroma and flavour.
Well….happy baking!!
Nankhatai
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