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. There are different kinds of khaja - depending on the stuffing. There's malai khaja, mawa khaja, pista khaja etc.
Recipe Type Veg.
Ingredients:
- 4.5 cups - flour
- 1 cup - Ghee
- 1 cup - Sugar
- 1 cup - water
- ghee/oil ( canola oil) for deep frying
- Green Cardamom for Sugar syrup
Preparation:
- Add half cup ghee and water to 4 cup flour and knead it into a soft dough.
- Heat the other half cup ghee in the microwave for a few seconds. Add the rest of the 1/2 cup maida with ghee and make a paste. Keep it aside.
- Make two big chapattis of the dough.
- Spread maida and ghee paste on one of them and put the second chapatti on the first one, add more of the paste.
- Start rolling both chapattis from one end so that one is layered inside the other.
- Now you've a long roll, cut this roll with a knife about one inch each. Keep all the pieces aside.
- Take one piece at a time and press it a little sideways with your finger and flatten it with a rolling pin.
- Deep fry the pieces in medium heat until they are golden brown.
- Boil sugar in water and make a thick syrup. Add cardamom to the sugar syrup.
- Dip the fried pieces one at a time in the syrup and take it out immediately.
Enjoy!