Description
Thekua is a famous Bihari Cookie prepared with whole wheat flour, coconut and jaggery during Chath Puja.
Ingredients
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- 300g Whole Wheat Flour / Atta (2 cups)
- 150g Jaggery / Gur (1 cup)1
- 1 cup Desiccated Coconut
- 10 Green Cardamom
- 2 Tbsp. Clarified Butter / Ghee
- 25g Cashew Nut and Almond (optional)
- Refined Vegetable Oil for Deep Frying
Instructions
- Make a powder of the green cardamoms and keep it aside.
- Chop cashew nuts and almonds, however, this step is optional. If you don't want to add dry fruits then just skip it.
- I love the crunchiness of dry fruits and moreover, I have a good stock of dry fruits after
- Diwali so I just have utilized them to make thekua.
- Take Jaggery along with ½ cup of water in a pan and heat it to melt the Jaggery to prepare Jaggery water. We don't need thick syrup for this.
- Mix 1 tbsp. of Ghee in the hot Jaggery water and give the water a stand of 5-7 minutes.
- Now take Wheat flour along with the desiccated coconut, powdered cardamom, and chopped dry fruits in a bowl and add little Jaggery water and start kneading it.
- Prepare a tight dough using entire Jaggery water. If required add a little more wheat flour to make the dough perfect.
- Keep the dough for 5 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 20 equal portions of a size of little smaller than ping pong balls.
- Using a mold shape the Thekua. If not available with a Thekua mold, use a fork to decorate.
- Take one wheat ball and place it over the mold.
- Press it little on the upper surface of the mold to get a decorated yet flattened small disk. If you don’t want to decorate it, then just flattened a wheat ball with the help of your hands.
- Make rest of the cookies following the same process.
- Now heat sufficient oil along with 1 tbsp. of Ghee in a wok for deep frying.
- Start frying Thekua in a batch of 3-4 depending on the radius of the pan in low flame till they turn golden brown in color and thoroughly cooked from inside. Don’t fry Khajur in high flame.
- Prepare the rest of the Thekua and place those on a paper towel to absorb excess oil.
- Thekua can be stored in an airtight container.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Cookie
- Method: Frying
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 45g
- Calories: 167
- Sugar: 7.5g
- Sodium: 368mg
- Fat: 8.8g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Carbohydrates: 20.4g
- Fiber: 1.2g
- Protein: 2.1g
- Cholesterol: 3mg
