Nankhatai Recipes

Pakistan's beloved shortbread cookies — made with ghee, gram flour, and cardamom, sprinkled with pistachios, baked in a wood-fired oven. The scent of nankhatai baking is the smell of every Pakistani bazaar in the afternoon.

Pakistan's beloved shortbread cookies — made with ghee, gram flour, and cardamom, sprinkled with pistachios, baked in a wood-fired oven. The scent of nankhatai baking is the smell of every Pakistani bazaar in the afternoon.

Nankhatai

Nankhatai

Punjab

Pakistan's beloved shortbread cookie — crumbly, ghee-rich, and subtly fragrant with cardamom — made from a mix of besan (gram flour), maida (all-purpose flour), and suji (semolina) that produces a melt-in-the-mouth texture no ordinary butter biscuit can match. They look pale and delicate coming out of the oven, then harden to perfection as they cool.

38m easy

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