Snacks & baking

Karachi biscuits (biscuits de Karachi)

Shortbread-style biscuits made with butter and milk, light and crisp, typical of the bakeries of Karachi. They are happily dunked in the morning tea.

Ingredients

616 kcal per serving

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Preheat the oven to 180 °C (gas mark 6) and line a tray with baking paper.
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
Add the cold butter cut into cubes and rub it in with your fingertips until the texture is sandy.
Stir in the sugar, then the beaten egg, vanilla and milk, mixing just until you have a soft dough.
Roll the dough out 5 mm thick and cut out 5 cm circles with a cutter or a glass.
Place the biscuits on the tray, brush them with milk and sprinkle with sesame if using.
Bake for 15 minutes, until the edges are golden.
Leave to cool on a wire rack; they will turn crisp as they cool.