Chocolate chip cookies

What you will need:

• Butter - 1/2 cup
• White /Sugar - 3/4 cup ( instead use 1/4 cup white sugar + 1/2 cup brown sugar)
• Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp
• Egg - 1
• All purpose flour (Maida) - 1 1/4 cup
• Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Chocolate chips - 1 cup ( instead use 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup chopped pecans/walnut/almond)

How to prepare
Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl. Beat in the vanilla essence and then the egg. Mix the flour, baking soda and salt and add it to the sugar mixture.
Finally, mix the chocolate chips and/or nuts.
Grease the cookie sheets and place spoonfuls of the mixture.
Preheat the oven at 375F and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.


If you like them crispy, leave for another 2 minutes. Cool and store.

Narayan Kataar ( NanKhatai / Butter Cookies)

What you will need:
Maida/All purpose flour - 2 cups
Powdered sugar - 1 cup
Ghee/Clarified butter - 3/4 cup
Green Cardamom - 8 ,Skin removed and the seeds crushed
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

How to prepare
Mix the flour, baking soda and sugar together in a bowl. Add the crushed cardamom and mix well. Melt the ghee. Add a little at a time, while mixing and kneading the dough it reaches the consistency of chapati dough.
Cover and keep the dough aside for 4 to 6 hours.
Make small balls out of the dough, around the size of a small lemon and slightly flatten them between your palms and place them on a greased baking sheet. Maintain some gap between the cookies.
Preheat the oven at 200°C. Bake them for about 15 minutes or until u see small cracks on top. Take the tray out of the oven and wait until the cookies cool completely. Store in an air-tight container.