Kaja (Andra Recipe)

I joined with my friend and made this recipe for the first time. It was too good to taste. This sweet is famous in Andhra. All my friends loved this recipe very much.

Ingredients:

Maida flour - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1pinch

Rice flour - 2 tbsp

Ghee - 4 to 5  tbsp

Water - 1/2 cup for dough (or little less)

Sugar - 1 and 1/2 cups

Water - 1/4 cup (for syrup)

Oil - 3 cups for frying

Salt - 1 pinch

Method:

Kaja Preparation:

1. Mix maida, salt, baking soda, ghee, little hot oil and water. Prepare dough of Chapathi consistency.

2. Cover the dough with plate and keep it aside for 20mins.

3. Make small balls out of it and make thin chapathi's.

4. Take 2 chapathi's. Keep one over the other by applying ghee and rice flour in between. Again apply ghee and rice flour on the top chapathi too. Press at corners and roll them like a roll mat as shown below.

5. Cut the roll into small pieces.

6. Take each piece and press them nicely flat as shown.

7. Pour oil to a pan and deep fry these pieces.

Sugar Syrup Preparation:

1. Put sugar on heavy bottom pan and add water until sugar is immersed.

2. Boil it well until single string consistency is formed.( To check, take a drop of the syrup between 2 fingers and when you open hand, you will find a single string out of it, then syrup is done, or pour some syrup to a cup of water, you can make balls of the syrup that is settled.)

Final Preparation:

1. Put the fried kaja in to the syrup directly.

2. Keep the kaja in syrup, until it absorbs ( Max 5 mins). Remove all kaja's from syrup and keep aside. Repeat the process for all Kajas .