thekua | thekua recipe | bihari khasta thekua recipe
thekua is a sweet crispy snack having a religious sanctity in Bihar during chatt pooja
Ingredients
- 1.75 cup Whole Wheat flour
- 1/4 cup Semolina/Suji/Rava
- 1 tsp Fennel seeds
- 1/4 cup Coconut shredded
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
- 1/2 cup desi ghee residue (or desi ghee 3 tbsp)
- 1/2 cup Jaggery
- 1/4 cup water
- Oil for frying
SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
- A glass with ridged design at its base. (as we don't have specific mold used for making thekua)
Instructions
- in a bowl add whole wheat flour, semolina, fennel seeds, shredded coconut and cardamom powder.
- add ghee residue and if you are making it without ghee residue, as already mentioned, add desi ghee in the bowl.
- take a pan and add water in it. place on low flame.
- add jaggery and stir it until the jaggery melts.
- pour melted jaggery into the bowl.
- mix everything with hands so that it looks like crumbled texture.
- knead a normal dough using water, if needed.
- take a ball size dough and place it on a clean shelf greased with oil.
- flatten the dough ball using your finger tips.
- hold the glass with the open side downwards and press on the flattened dough to give it a perfect round shape.
- remove the excess dough from outside the glass border.
- now turn the side of the glass with designed side downwards and grease that side with oil so that it doesn't stick to the dough.
- press the glass on the flattened dough to mark a design on thekua.
- likewise make thekuas with all the dough and keep aside.
- `fry them in batches in oil on medium heat.
- take them out on a plate lined with paper nepkin so that excess oil is absorbed.
- your thekua is ready. you can keep them for a week.