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Crispy Khaja recipe with wheat flour

Crispy Khaja recipe with wheat flour

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Crispy Khaja recipe with wheat flour offers a light, flaky, and delicious traditional sweet, perfect for festive occasions and celebrations.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course indian sweets, Sweets
Cuisine Indian
Servings 11 pieces

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 250 ml

FOR SUGAR SYRUP

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 green cardamoms
  • Few drops of lemon juice

FOR SATTA

FOR DOUGH

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 4 tsp desi ghee
  • pinch of salt
  • Water as required

Instructions
 

MAKING OF SUGAR SYRUP

  • Take sugar, water and cardamoms in a pan.
  • Boil them for couple of minutes.
  • Boil till the syrup reaches less than one string consistency. Meaning thereby, when you stretch the syrup droplet between your thumb and index finger, it begins to make one string but breaks before completing itself.
  • Remove the pan from the heat and add lemon juice. Mix and keep aside.

MAKING OF DOUGH

  • Take whole wheat flour, salt and desi ghee.
  • Firstly mix them by rubbing and a sandy textured mixture will form.
  • Start adding water, very little at a time and knead a dough. You need to knead the dough really well with no cracks in it.
  • Dough should be semi soft, means neither too hard not too soft.
  • Cover and keep aside for 30 minutes.

MAKING OF KHAJA

  • After the said time, divide the dough into 5 equal proportions and make smooth balls out of them with no cracks.
  • Roll them into thin (as much as possible) rotis. You can dust dry flour wherever needed.
  • After rolling all 5, we have kept them separately so that they don't stick to one another.
  • Now take one roti, prefer the bigger one and apply satta on it leaving no space behind. Satta is a thick paste made of mixing desi ghee and cornflour.
  • Thereafter place second roti on the first one.
  • Likewise keep repeating the same. One roti on another and satta between each roti.
  • Lastly apply satta on the top ie fifth roti as well.
  • Now hold one edge and start rolling it tightly. Make sure there shouldn't incorporate any air inside them.
  • When you are about to reach on the end, apply water.
  • Stick the roll.
  • Trim the edges and cut the roll into half inch pieces.
  • Gently press each piece and pinch the edges. It will shape like an eye.
  • Add few of the pieces in low hot oil. Add as much as your pan can accommodate comfortably in one go.
  • Do not disturb them initially and let them fry on low heat. Remember, oil shouldn't be very hot.
  • Turn their sides gently and let them turn slightly brown, not too dark.
  • Take them out and directly transfer in sugar syrup. Sugar syrup should only be luke warm this time.
  • Make sure all pieces should get coated in sugar syrup properly.
  • Take them out of sugar syrup in a minute or two. This sweet is moderately sweet, not excessively.
  • Garnish the way you like and enjoy.

Notes

  1. Once Kaja is completely cool & sugar syrup is fully absorbed, you can store it in an airtight container & consume within 10 days.
  2. This recipe is traditionally made with maida. Feel free to use that if you want.
Keyword Kaja, Khaja