The Paleo Recipe Book

Friday, September 14, 2007

Indian Sweet Recipes - Sweet Diamonds

Sweet Diamonds

Ingredients:

5 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup ghee or butter
1 cup water
2 tsp khus khus seeds
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
Oil for frying

Method:

1. Mix sugar, water, ghee together and boil for few minutes or until bubbles form at the top.
2. Then remove from fire. Add all-purpose flour, cardamom powder and khus khus seeds to that mixture.
3. Make sure that no lumps should form in the mixture when adding the flour. Mix well to form a soft dough.
4. Let the mixture cool for 30 minutes and then roll the dough to a round shape.
5. Cut the dough into diamond shaped pieces and fry them in hot oil until they are golden brown in color.