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Chocolate Nankhatai Recipe
This chocolate nankhatai recipe is a fusion take on traditional nankhatai with full of chocolate flavor.
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
Indian
Prep Time
15
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
20
minutes
minutes
Total Time
35
minutes
minutes
Servings
20
nankhatai
Calories
191
kcal
Author
Kanan
Ingredients
▢
1
cup
All purpose flour (Maida)
▢
2
tablespoons
Besan (gram flour)
▢
2
tablespoons
Corn flour (corn starch)
▢
1 ½
tablespoons
Unsweetened cocoa powder
▢
⅛
teaspoon
Baking powder
▢
½
cup
Ghee (Clarified butter)
in semi-solid form
▢
½
cup
Powdered sugar (Confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar)
▢
2
tablespoons
Almonds
or pistachios, sliced
Instructions
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for at least 10 minutes.
Line a baking sheet or cookie sheet with parchment paper and keep it aside.
Making chocolate nankhatai recipe:
Take all purpose flour, besan, corn flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in a bowl.
Mix well using wire whisk till everything is incorporated well. If there are too many lumps, you can sift the flour mixture.
Now take the ghee in another bowl. Ghee should be in semi solid form.
Add powdered sugar. Beat it very well till everything is incorporated well or till it is light and smooth.
Now add flour mixture. Start mixing with a spatula, if you pinch some of the mixture, it will come together.
Now using your hand, combine everything and make the dough.
Now divide the mixture into 20 equal portions and start making the balls.
Arrange them on a prepared baking sheet.
top it with few sliced almonds and press very lightly into the dough.
bake into the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes.
Let them cool down in the pan for 5 minutes
then using spatula remove them on the cooling rack.
Let the nankhatai cool down completely.
Notes
instead of ghee,
you can use same amount of softened room temperature butter
Nutrition
Serving:
2
g
|
Calories:
191
kcal
|
Carbohydrates:
18.8
g
|
Protein:
2.1
g
|
Fat:
12.2
g
|
Saturated Fat:
7.4
g
|
Cholesterol:
32
mg
|
Sodium:
1
mg
|
Potassium:
49
mg
|
Fiber:
1
g
|
Sugar:
6.1
g
*Nutrition information is a rough estimate for 1 serving
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