Thekua (Dessert)
Popularly known as Khajoor, Thekua is popular homemade dessert from Bihar
and Jharkhand. Thekua is a sweet and crispy dessert prepared with whole
wheat flour, sugar and chopped coconuts. Thekua is ideal dessert to carry
with during long journeys as it can be stored for few days. Try this
Ingredients
- 500 gm: Aatta (whole wheat flour)
- 2 tbsp: Coconut (chopped)
- 300 gm: Jaggery (Gur)
- 4-5: Green Cardamom (peeled and mashed)
- Ghee (or vegetable oil)
- 1.5 cup:Water
- Saancha: (A Saancha is basically an embroidered surface of wood like
the ones used for making block prints. This is used to give an
embroidered look to the surface of khajoor when it gets pressed against
it).
Method
- Mix jaggery, water, and green cardamom into a watery solution.
- Mix 4 tbsp ghee, jaggery syrup prepared above and coconut to aatta
and make dough of it same as that for making chapatis.
- Use only as much jaggery syrup as required to make dough like the
one for making chapatis
- Take a lump of dough (the size as that for making chapaatis), press
it flat on your palm like a peda then press it against a saancha for
making khajoor.
- After the khajoor has acquired the imprint from the saancha, it is
deep fried in ghee till reddish brown.
- Ghee is strained and khajoor kept aside.
- Serve when completely cooled.
