Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, star fruit shaped sweet khaja. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chiroti, also known as khaja, this is a crispy sugar coated puri a delicious snack. Chiroti is a traditional Maharashtrian delicacy. I like to make them for holidays like holi and Diwali.
Star Fruit Shaped Sweet Khaja is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Star Fruit Shaped Sweet Khaja is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook star fruit shaped sweet khaja using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Star Fruit Shaped Sweet Khaja:
- Prepare flour (maida)
- Get oil
- Prepare baking powder
- Get salt
- Take sugar
- Get water
- Take cardamom powder
- Get Oil for deep frying
There is also a special variety of khaja called belgrami which is not so sweet and is made from milk. There's malai khaja, mawa khaja, pista khaja etc. Mithai khaja is a traditional sweet made with maida and ghee, sometimes stuffed with khoya or dry fruits, deep fried in ghee and then dunked into a fragrant saffron-flavoured sugar syrup. Star fruit has a sweet flavor with a slightly sour undertone and a juicy, firm flesh like a grape.
Instructions to make Star Fruit Shaped Sweet Khaja:
- In a pan bring water and sugar to a boil over medium heat. Turn the heat to low and stir continuously until sugar dissolves completely and the syrup is clear with sticky consistency. Add cardamom powder and turn off the heat.
- Place the flour (maida), salt, baking powder and oil together in a bowl. Mix well and knead it to a smooth dough by adding water as needed. Cover and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
- Make 8 balls of the dough, equal in size. Roll out a ball to a big chapati. Cut it into three round shaped small puris with the help of a cutter mould (as shown in pic).
- Now take these three puris and put all on one another on a board. Half- fold the bunch and lightly press with your thumb at the centre. Pin it with a toothpick near the edge end to avoid opening while deep frying. Repeat the process to make similar khaja with rest of the dough balls.
- Heat oil in a pan. Deep fry the khajas till brown on a medium heat.
- Dip the khajas in pre-prepared warm sugar syrup for 10 minutes.
- Transfer them to a serving plate and serve.
Use the star shapes to add fruitiness to a green salad or to decorate a cheese or snack platter. After removing the seeds, the fruit can also be pureed or juiced and added to smoothies and drinks. Sweet Khaja is a Bihari sweetmeat or mithai often stuffed with a khoya or dry fruit filling, deep fried in ghee and then dunked into a fragrant In other parts of the country Khaja is known by different names and has many varieties such as Pheni in Orissa, Badusahi or Padusahi or Chandrakala in South India. Madatha Khaja is a delicious flaky pastry dipped in sugar syrup, quite similar to our Badusha except its shaped out of a layered dough. Cut them slightly in an angle to give a diamond shape.
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