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easy khaja recipe | khaja sweet | madatha kaja recipe | kaja sweet recipe
Servings 20 pieces
Ingredients
for dough:
- 1 cup maida / plain flour
- 2 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- ¼ cup water
- oil for deep frying
for sugar syrup:
- 1½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder / elachi powder
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
- firstly, in a large bowl take 1 cup maida and add 2 tbsp ghee.
- crumble and mix well making the flour is moist.
- now add ¼ cup water and knead smooth and soft dough.
- grease the dough with oil. cover and rest for 15 minutes.
- dust the dough with maida and roll with the rolling pin.
- roll as thin as possible making sure to dust maida as required.
- now cut the sides forming a large square/rectangle.
- start to roll tightly from one side.
- dust maida on each roll to prevent layers from sticking to each other.
- 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.
- immediately drop the fried kajas into the warm sugar syrup.
- soak them in the syrup for 5 minutes.
- finally, serve madatha kaja or store in an airtight container for 10-15 days.