Thekua is a Bihar and Jharkand traditional desi cookie and festival sweet and in Bihar also known by name Khajuriya. In Bihar people made thekua while traveling or mainly made during Chhath Puja and also made as snacks while traveling. You might already know one more well-loved dish from Bihar that is Litti Chokha or bharta. Both recipes (thekua and litti) show how simple ingredients can create comforting, delicious food that people enjoy across generations.
Thekua is a deep fried traditional desi cookie made by jaggery and Khajuriya made by sugar. The delicious taste of dry fruits,attractive aroma in thekua of fennel seeds, and cardamom plays beautifully with jaggery or bura (sugar) in khajuriya.
Khajuriya or thekua is traditional desi cookie that give you crunchy hard exterior with a soft interior taste. Thekua or Khajuriya have uneven cracked edges by pressing, making them well crunchy and hard from exterior.
The identification of a perfectly made thekua will be the not perfect cookie with uneven edges, so do not worry if they are uneven shapes.
Traditionally wooden moulds with leaf design or round patterns are used to making it by pressing. Not to worry if you do not have these decorative wooden moulds. You could use your hand for pressing or a cookie press for shape, or also you can also make designs on unfried cookies with a tooth pick or a wooden skewer.
This thekua recipe is a delightful treat to serve as evening snack with a warm cup of your favorite chai or coffee.
Ingredients of Thekua Recipe
- Whole wheat flour: 4 cups
- Jaggery: 1 cup, grated or crushed (for Thekua)
- Sugar : 1 cup, grated or crushed (for Khajuriya)
- Ghee: 4 tablespoons, plus extra for frying
- Fennel seeds: 1 teaspoon
- Cardamom powder: 1/2 teaspoon
- suji : 1/4 cup
- Milk: 1/2 cup
Optional Ingredients
- Grated coconut: 1/4 cup
- Kismis : 1/8 cup
- Date : 1/8 cup
- kaju & badam : 1/8 cup
- banana : 1pc
Process of Thekua or Khajuriya Recipe
- Take 4 cups of whole wheat flour or 4 cups of all-purpose flourlike maida. Overall you need 4 cups of flour.
- Heat 4 tablespoons ghee or oil in a small bowl or pan (if you have) until it melts and becomes warm.
- Pour the warm ghee on the flours.
- First mix with a spoon. Then rub with your hand and mix properly ghee with flours.
- Add Chini Bura (powdered sugar) and mix properly bura with flours
- Add Suji/rawa (semolina) and mix properly suji with flours
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- Add kishmish (Raisins) and mix properly kishmish with flours
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- Add Chhuhara (dried dates) and mix properly Chhuhara with flours
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- Add Nariyal bura (desiccated coconut) and mix properly Nariyal bura with flours
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- Add Kela (Banana) and mix properly banana with flours
- Add some amount (⅓ to ½ cup) of milk as the requirement in parts and begin to knead.The amount of milk needed in flour will depend on the quality and texture of flour.
- Knead the dough properly until it is firm and tight.
- Divide the dough into small parts and make a ball shape.
- Press the ball with wooden instrument(optional) and give them shape like cookie
Frying
- Heat ghee (if you get desi ghee taste) or oil in a kadai or pan for deep frying. Before youstart frying, check if the oil is at the right temperature.
- To test the oil temperature drop a small piece of dough into the Kadai. If it rises quicklyand steadily to the surface, the oil is hot enough for frying.
- Wait little bit more If the dough sinks in kadai and stays at the bottom. If it rises veryquickly and energetically, the oil is too hot.
- Gently slid the thekua in oil. Add only a few pieces at a time to avoid overcrowding.
- Depending on your pan or kadai size, you can fry 2 to 3 thekuas simultaneously.
- Fry thekua at medium heat. If you’re using a light pan or kadai, fry the thekuas overmedium-low heat.
- Carefully flip the thekua and fry the other side. Keep deep frying, turning timely, until thekua turn golden brown.
- Transfer the fried thekuas onto kitchen paper towels to drain excess oil. Fry all the prepared thekua in batches. After they have cooled completely, store the thekuas in an airtight container.
- Serve Your delicious thekua to your family, friends and guests.
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