Khaja Sweet | Chirote Recipe | Madatha kaza
Ingredients:
- 2 Cups All purpose flour / Wheat flour
- 1/4 Cup Ghee / clarrified Butter
- Chilled water for kneading
For Sugar Syrup:
Instruction:
- To prepare Khaja recipe, in a bowl, add the flour, melted ghee and mix well. Add cold water to make a smooth yet firm dough.
- Cover the dough and keep aside for at least 15 to 20 minutes.
- Divide the dough in six equal parts.
- Dust the dough with maida and roll with the rolling pin.
- Roll as thin as possible making sure to dust maida as required.
- Make six chappatis of same size.
- Now take one chappati apply ghee and dust flour and keep another chappatti over it.
- Likewise repeat with every chappati.
- dust maida on each roll to prevent layers from sticking to each other.
- Now, start to roll tightly from one side. roll the cylinder tight to remove any air gaps if present.
- cut it into 1 inch pieces and slightly flatten.
- Fry on low-medium flame till they turn crispy and golden in colour.
- Cool them completely.
- In the meantime, prepare sugar syrup adding 2 cups sugar in 1 cup water in a pan.
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Bring to a boil and cook till it becomes sticky. Or of 2 string consistency. Add cardamom powder.
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Dip the fried khaja into the syrup hence prepared, when the syrup is still warm. Immediately take the well-coated khajas onto the greased plate.
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Serve Khaja at room temperature. You could also serve them when still warm. This Khaja recipe can be stored in an air-tight container up to 2 weeks at room temperature.