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Wheat flour Nankhatai | Wheat flour benne biscuit |

Divya Suresh
Wheat flour Nankhatai | Wheat flour benne biscuit |

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Nankhatai or benne biscuit is a popular, traditional and most loved cookie, which is a favourite among people of all age group. I have hardly seen any Iyengar bakery without benne biscuit in their jar or any bakery for that matter. And we are also not an exception but to stay as its biggest fans and in namma Bengaluru, Iyengar bakery benne biscuit is very famous.

In north India it is famous as “NanKhatai” In Karnataka we call it as “Benne Biscuit” where the word ‘benne’ translates to ‘butter’. Though butter is being used in this recipe, but some use ghee and some use oil as well, but because of its soft and melt in mouth feature it has got that name benne biscuit I suppose.

After a long gap I’m baking something ! And it is very simple to make with only three Ingredients, also it turned out yummy so happily sharing the recipe with you all. The original recipe was made with Maida, but I tried making it with whole wheat flour. Thank you Mrs. Savitha AK for the recipe.

This cookie/biscuit is made in many variations like by using maida or mixture of maida and besan or besan and semolina or maida, besan and semolina or wheat flour or wheat flour and besan, though wheat flour was not that much in trend but currently many are coming up with the wheat flour Nankhatai as well. However I have used only wheat flour and made it in two batches of 1 cup each.

Ingredients : measuring cup used – 200 ml

  • Whole wheat flour – 1 cup (Pass it through a sieve to get finer flour)
  • Powdered Sugar – 1/4 to 1/3 cup
  • Oil – little more than 1/4 cup
  • Salt a pinch

PROCEDURE :

  • Mix whole wheat flour, powdered sugar and salt and combine the mixture well
  • Add oil little at a time and form the dough, do not knead
  • Divide into equal portions and give it a shape by rolling and pressing between the palms
  • Bake it in a pre heated oven @ 180 degree C for 14 to 16 minutes ( baking duration varies from oven to oven)
  • Our benne biscuit/Nankhatai is ready to relish

By the way you can also check –

baked bread rolls , whole wheat flour cookies , baked vermicelli Kunafa , Coffee cookies , Apple crumble , oats banana bread Pudding , fusion hot & sweet idly muffin , Whole wheat flour Choco chip cookies

And couple of other Iyengar bakery like stuffs –

Congress Kadlekayi

Bread toast

Bonda Kadalebeeja

However you can find my recipes here as well –

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