Ingredients

• 4.5 cups - flour
• 1 cup - ghee
• 1 cup - sugar
• 1 cup - water
• ghee/oil ( canola oil) for deep frying
• Green cardamom for sugar syrup

How to Make Khaja

• Add half cup ghee and water to 4 cup flour and knead it into a soft dough.
• Heat the other half cup ghee in the microwave for a few seconds. Add the rest of the 1/2 cup maida with ghee and make a paste. Keep it aside.
• Make two big chapattis of the dough.
• Spread maida and ghee paste on one of them and put the second chapatti on the first one, add more of the paste.
• Start rolling both chapattis from one end so that one is layered inside the other.
• Now you've a long roll, cut this roll with a knife about one inch each. Keep all the pieces aside.
• Take one piece at a time and press it a little sideways with your finger and flatten it with a rolling pin.
• Deep fry the pieces in medium heat until they are golden brown.
• Boil sugar in water and make a thick syrup. Add cardamom to the sugar syrup.
• Dip the fried pieces one at a time in the syrup and take it out immediately.