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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Iyengar Bakery Butter Biscuit / Nankattai / Short bread cookie

  Butter biscuit  or Nankattai ,is a very famous tea time snack .These bisuits are always available in the tea shops of Tamil nadu.A cup of tea will be a very best accompaniment for these biscuits.These biscuits are usually prepared  in Iyengar bakeries in TN.Wanted to try these ,for long.Today got a good recipe from the net.This is a inspiration from Divya's Recipes.She had garnished with nuts,which I have avoided,as I like the biscuits plain.These biscuits can be prepared in less than an hour.Try it it will be a treat for our bellies.


Ingredients:
 1.All purpose flour - 1 cup
2.Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup
3.butter - 1 stick (1/2 cup)
4.Baking pwdr - 1/4 tsp
5.Salt - a pinch
6.Cardamom pwdr - a pinch
7.Rice flour -  2 tbsp

Method:
* Pre heat the oven for 350 degrees farenhiet.
* Powder the sugar ,Sieve the flour and keep it aside.
* Melt the butter and cool it completely.
* Take a bowl,add flour,salt,powdered sugar,baking powder,cardamom powder and mix well.
* Slowly add the melted butter and make a dough out of it.
* The dough will be crumbly yet pilable dough.Dont be tempted to add some more butter to make it a soft dough.I did the mistake for the first batch.It made my biscuits flat and crispy.So stick to the measurements.
* Rest the dough for 15 mins ,by covering it.



* Cover a cookie sheet with aluminium foil .
* Divide the dough into equal sized balls.Slightly press them and arrange it in the sheet.
* Take a fork and press it .This step is purely optional.
* Bake the biscuit for 15 - 20 minutes in the middle rack, or untill it becomes golden brown.
* Take the biscuits out and cool them in wire racks completely.Store in air tight containers.
* Serve with coffee .

Note:
* Adding powdered sugar is different from adding normal sugar.
* If you want the biscuits to be bit sweeter, then u can add 1/4 cup more.
* The dough will be crumbly, dont ever try to add some more ghee,butter or milk to make it soft.Then it will be flat and crispy.
* No need to grease the foil with butter,as the dough itself has enough butter ,so it wont stick to the foil.
 * Bake the buiscuits in the middle rack,this will bake the biscuits slowly.If u keep it in the last rack then ,there are chances for the biscuits to become black.

18 comments:

  1. Best Snacker with hot elachi tea....

    http://recipe-excavator.blogspot.com

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  2. They came out super prefect Savi,wat an addictive and attractive biscuits.

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  3. like the way u have presented your recipes.. glad to follow u.. do stop by mine sometime..

    http://jopreet.blogspot.com/

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  4. Savi..Kalakura..Still in my to do lists...yummy

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  5. Feel like having soe right now...yummy cookies...

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  6. ആശംസകള്‍............... ബ്ലോഗില്‍ പുതിയ പോസ്റ്റ്‌...... സംസ്ഥാന ചലച്ചിത്ര അവാര്‍ഡു........ വായിക്കണേ.........

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  7. Thanks for this recipe, I tried it today. Came out really well :-)

    Aparna

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