Khasta Thekua recipe । Khajur Recipe
On this prosperous occasion of chhath puja, thekua is a sweet which is made on a vast platform.
Ingredients for Suji Thekua
- Semolina - 1.5 cups (250 gms)
- Refined flour - 1.5 cups (180 gms)
- Powdered Sugar - less than 1 cup (125 gms)
- Dry Coconut - ¼ cup (grated)
- Dry coconut - ¼ cup (finely grated)
- Full cream milk - 1 cup (use more than ¼ cup)
- Ghee - ½ cup (60 gms)
- Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
- Raisins - 1 tbsp
- Green Cardamoms powder - ½ tsp
How to make Suji Thekua
For the dough
Take 1.5 cups of semolina, add 1.5 cups of refined flour, less than 1 cup of powdered sugar, ½ tsp of green cardamoms powder, ½ tsp of fennel seeds, 1 tbsp of chopped raisins, ¼ cup of grated dry coconut, ¼ cup of finely chopped dry coconut, ¼ cup of ghee for the dough and mix all the ingredients properly.
Knead the stiff dough using ¼ cup of lukewarm full cream milk and mash the dough between your palms to bind it.
Take a dough lump and bind it between your palms. For binding, roll it between your palms and use the moulds of thekua to give it a desired shape or pattern.
Place it on the round mould and press by keeping it on the table top. Roll a straight sough lump and place it on the longer mould. Again, press it by keeping it on the table top. If you don’t have the mould then, take a dough lump, roll it, press it and poke it using a fork.
To fry thekua
Preheat oil in the wok and moderately heated oil, the medium flame is required to fry thekuas.
Add them in the wok to fry and flip them once they are golden from the bottom. Drain them out once they have fried and it It takes 4-5 minutes to fry single round of thekuas.
Suggestions
You can use water instead of milk to knead the dough.
Keep the dough dry and mash it to bind it properly.
Oil should be moderately heated and the flame should be low-medium.
If you will add thekuas to fry when oil is rightly heated then, they will burn from the top, raw from the inside. If oil is not rightly heated and the flame is low then, thekuas might split in while frying.
You can store it in any container once they cool down and consume for 2 months.
सूजी के खस्ता ठेकुआ सांचे और बिना सांचे के बनायें । Khasta Thekua recipe । Khajur Recipe
