Khajoor | Thekua are deep fried Indian Cookies, which are kid-friendly and mostly served with evening tea. These carry good shelf life too.
Last evening while having tea and gulping piping hot pakoda’s, made by mom…. The conversation on after school snacks started….it all started with ready made and easily available deep fried snacks. In the process my mom told me, how she is use to make a different snack everyday at home during my school ….Then I remembered these Khajoor which my mom use to make mostly during our festival holidays or as after school snack.
Over the growing years, I missed eating these as they are deep fried and mom use to make these rarely. But today when the conversation started on this, I asked my mom to make these as Lil’M has got sweet tooth….and daily giving her something new in her snack box or as after school snack is a tedious job. I really wonder those days, I have never cared for any recipe my mom made…always gulped them…
I studied in a missionary school and proud to say that we never had extra study hours or tuition. We were encouraged to prepare our notes from class seven. Me and my sister usually use to come back home by four in the
evening. My mom made it a point to drop down the bags at the study table after removing shoes and socks and keeping them on shoe rack. She use to give us a glass of water and then we use to rush to take bath. After that my mom use to serve piping hot homemade snacks or sweets or cookies like these. There are many childhood favourite sweets which I love to devour till date…but among all I like these more…as they are not so sweet in taste and the heavenly aroma of cardamom lifts your spirits. My mom use to make these when we are visiting friends or relatives. She even makes these to carry with us on train trips or to family picnics. I find these very indulging and yum.
evening. My mom made it a point to drop down the bags at the study table after removing shoes and socks and keeping them on shoe rack. She use to give us a glass of water and then we use to rush to take bath. After that my mom use to serve piping hot homemade snacks or sweets or cookies like these. There are many childhood favourite sweets which I love to devour till date…but among all I like these more…as they are not so sweet in taste and the heavenly aroma of cardamom lifts your spirits. My mom use to make these when we are visiting friends or relatives. She even makes these to carry with us on train trips or to family picnics. I find these very indulging and yum.
Khajoor | Thekua Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 cup whole Wheat flour
- ½ cup Semolina
- ½ tbsp. Baking Soda
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ tbsp. Green Cardamom | Elachi powder
- ¾ cup Milk
- 3 tbsp. Ghee, melted
- 3 tbsp. Cashew nuts, fried and roughly chopped
- Oil, fro deep frying
How to make Khajoor
PREPARATION:
- In wide bowl mix whole wheat flour with semolina, baking soda, sugar, cardamom powder and fried cashew nuts. Mix well. Add ghee slowly and using your fingers mix gently until you get crumbs.
- Now slowly add in milk and knead the dough gently with your fingers till you get thick dough. Rest the dough for 15 minutes by covering.
- Heat oil in a heavy bottom cooking vessel or kadai for deep frying and in the meanwhile using your fingers knead the dough until you get smooth dough easy enough to roll.
- Apply ghee/oil to the rolling surface and pin. Roll the dough to 1’inch thick circle and using a knife cut into diamonds. Alternatively you can use cookie cutter to cut into desired shapes or you can make pattern
using fork. - Deep fry the cut diamonds by dropping by one by one in to hot oil. Fry till brown on both the sides. Remember not to burn them. Fry on low flame for 2-3 minutes and then on medium till done. You can see cracks forming on the diamonds.
- Remove using a slotted spoon to remove excess oil. Cool and store in an air tight container.
- These can stay fresh for 4-5 days when stored in a clean and dry air tight container.
- Add love to make these Khajoor taste ‘Yummy’.
Linking this recipe to Gayatri’s Cookspot‘s Walk Through Memory Lane Event and also to Pari of Foodelicious ‘Only‘ event where the theme for the month is ‘Traditional Recipes’….which is guest hosted by Jiya of Jiya’s Delicacy.
NOTES:
- Adjust milk depending on the dough. Adjust sugar as per your taste.
- You can even powder and add sugar. But traditional at my house these are made like this.
- You can even add small chunks of deep fried dry coconut pieces instead of cashew nuts.
- You can even add roasted and powdered fennel seed powder instead of cardamom powder for aroma and flavour.
HEALTHY TIP: You can even add ½ cup of Oats powder to this.
Rekha Vengalil says
I have had a chance to taste this as a child. This sure Kindled my childhood memories and hoping to make this soon 🙂
Mahi says
khajoor is little different in our place..this looks yum!
Rafeeda AR says
Something that my grandma used to make so often… she stopped making it since we insisted she doesn't as they are deep fried… u r now tempting me to go try these soon… i miss this, i guess i should ask her to make some quantity and sent it here…
kitchen queen says
very innovative crispy tempting cookies.
Priti S says
I love this too …in my in-law place still khajoor is made during festive and if travelling ….looks too yum
Shama Nagarajan says
inviting lubna…
Rosa's Yummy Yums says
Those look delicious! A fabulous treat.Cheers,Rosa
Priya R says
One interesting recipe 🙂 never tried them Lubna but the flavours itself make me drool
Priya Anandakumar says
very interesting and crispy looking cookies…
sheri's cookery says
Looks good…gonna try very soon…
Hamaree Rasoi says
Delicious and lovely looking cookies. Excellent preparation.Deepa
Aps prabhu says
Who cares about fried things hen tits so yum!!! 🙂
Priya Suresh says
My grandma something similar like this, these cookies are my favourite, love to munch some.
Vikis Kitchen says
Very nice to read your childhood memories. The cookies look delicious. We used to make it like small 1 inch size cubes with maida:) Love your mom's dedication very much!
Sangeetha Priya says
delicious n superb clicks 🙂
Subha Subramanian says
inviting cookies……… x❤x❤http://indianveggiesbhojan.blogspot.in/
Ambreen (Simply Sweet n Savory) says
Ahh Lubna, this brings back some sweet childhood memories! Yummy sweet little treat!
Medha Engineer says
Nice clicks! These look so tempting. I never had friend cookies, I am excited to try this. What kind of oil did you use to fry them?
Lubna Karim says
Medha – I used refined sunflower oil….Try them out…I am sure you will love them….
Asiya Omar says
Delicious Cookies.Thanks for linking this to Gayathri's WTML Event hosted by me.
Srivalli says
Very delicious indeed!..
LoVeLy AsH says
1 tbspn or 1 tsp baking powder?
radhaaariv says
Hello Lubna Karim, Thank you for sharing khajoor deep fried indian cookies recipe. I loved this. I would love to try this at home. Keep sharing such amazing recipes with us.
Lubna Karim says
Do try it and share a pic. Thank you…