Gud Wali Mathri Recipe | Crispy Sweet Mathri with Jaggery
Gud Wali Mathri is a crispy, flaky, and sweet winter delight made with jaggery, perfect for festive cravings and tea-time indulgence.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 250 gram gud/jaggery
- 1/2 cup - 125 ml water
- 3 cup or as required whole wheat flour
- 4 tbsp desi ghee
- 3 tbsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp white sesame seeds
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Oil for frying
Instructions
- Take water and jaggery in a pan.
- Heat the water only to melt the jaggery.
- Sieve jaggery in a wide plate or paraat.
- Add desi ghee, sesame seeds, white fennel seeds and salt. Mix.
- Let this jaggery water cool down completely.
- Now start adding wheat flour, little at a time and keep mixing.
- Keep adding and mixing flour until it turns out to be a tight dough.
- Cover and rest the dough for 15-20 minutes.
- Now take a portion of dough and roll on a greased surface with greased rolling pin.
- Cut it into desired shapes.
- It's thickness should neither be too thick not too thin.
- Likewise finish the entire dough and place these mathri in plates.
- Heat oil and to check it, drop a small piece of dough in oil. If it sinks initially and later came up, its a sign that oil is sufficiently hot.
- Add the pieces but one by one and don't overcrowd the pan as well.
- Initially don't touch them because they are very tender.
- Once firm, turn their sides.
- Fry till they turn golden brown.
- Take them out and fry the entire batch.
- Initially they will be tender but once cool, they will turn crispy.
- Store in air tight container.