Thekua-Bihari sweet recipe-How to make-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 15 min | To Serve: 4 | Type: Sweet, dessert, diwali special sweet, holi

Ingredients

• Wheat flour - 1 cup
• Rava [semolina]– 1/4 cup
• Ghee or butter– 1/4 cup
• Green cardamom powder– 1 tbsp
• Sugar – 1/2 cup [Powdered]
• Water as needed
• Oil & ghee for deep frying

Preparation

• In a bowl add wheat flour, ghee, cardamom powder & powdered sugar mix well.
• Add water knead it make dough. Then cover it & leave it for 15 to 20 min.
• Sprinkle flour & roll out into thick chapatti.
• Cut into leaf shape, using knife make lines & leave it for 5 min.
• Heat oil & ghee in a pan then deep fry till crisp & golden brown on low to medium hot oil
• When it is ready take it out & drain on an absorbent paper.
• Then sprinkle 1 tbsp of powdered sugar cardamom over the biscuits mix well & let it cool.
• Store it in an airtight container and use within 5 days.

Tips & variations

• You can replace sugar with jaggery syrup.
• Add milk instead of water
• Add roasted coconut, raisins, cashews, roasted peanuts & sesame seeds.
• You can use khus khus[poppy seeds]
• You can add maida & wheat flour[50:50] or gram flour & wheat flour, wheat flour & almond flour etc..
• You can add curd / butter.
• You can make any shapes like half moon shape, flower shape, diamond shape etc.
• You can add vanilla essence or nutmeg powder.
• For crispy unique flavour, make sugar syrup[1 string consistency], add rose water, dip each thekua in sugar syrup, let it cool & serve.
• You can add dalda instead of ghee.

How to make Bihari thekua sweet-Step by step photos

In a bowl add wheat flour, rava

Add powdered sugar

Add cardamom powder

Add ghee

Add water / milk mix well, and make semi soft dough

Dough ready, cover it & leave it for 20 min

Roll out into thick chapathi

Now its ready

Cut into leaf shape

Draw leaf lines

Heat oil in a pan, drop raw thekua

Deep fry till crisp on low to medium flame

Flip over fry

Fry for 8 min

Crispy thekua sweet ready, remove it from oil

Thekua sweet, let it cool, store in an airtight container, use within 2 weeks

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