Name: CHOCOLATE NANKHATAI recipe by KitchenAid India at BetterButter
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: Ghee (clarified butter): 100 gms; Icing Sugar: 80 gms; All-Purpose Flour: 120 gms; Chickpea Flour: 60 gms; Cardamom Powder: tsp; Milk: 1 to 2 tbs; 45% Dark Chocolate (chopped in chunks): 100 gms; Pistachios (chopped): 1 tbs

ABOUT CHOCOLATE NANKHATAI RECIPE

There’s something about Diwali that makes me crave Nankhatai! These crumbly, eggless cookies owe their origins to Dutch presence in India, but I love how they have taken on a distinct Indian flavour with the addition of ghee and chickpea flour (besan). Sometimes, you’ll find half the chickpea flour being substituted with sooji (semolina), and that works really well too, but this recipe has just two flours: All-Purpose and Chickpea.

Ingredients Serving: 10

Ghee (clarified butter): 100 gms
Icing Sugar: 80 gms
All-Purpose Flour: 120 gms
Chickpea Flour: 60 gms
Cardamom Powder: tsp
Milk: 1 to 2 tbs
45% Dark Chocolate (chopped in chunks): 100 gms
Pistachios (chopped): 1 tbs

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line a baking sheet with parchment / silpat.
In the bowl of the KitchenAid Artisan Series 4.8 L Tilt-Head Stand Mixer (http://bit.ly/1UoFCr7), cream together the ghee and icing sugar, using the paddle attachment.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flours and salt. Whisk in the cardamom powder. Add these dry ingredients to creamed sugar & ghee in 3 batches, beating well to incorporate after each addition.
Add the milk, a little at a time, and work it through the dough (do this by hand) to get a texture where the dough clumps together when pressed together and can be shaped into balls without crumbling or developing cracks (very important). I
Shape the dough into 15 to 18 individual rounds and place on the baking sheet Garnish with chopped pistachios.
Bake in the uppermost section of oven with the only the bottom heating option working. Bake for about 20 minutes, rotating the tray half way through baking time. Cool on a wire rack.

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