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Chirotee

Maida chapathi rolled and dipped in sugar syrup and served as a sweet
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Others
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 cups Maida
  • 1 1/4 cups Sugar
  • 4 tbsp Ghee
  • 3 cups Ghee for deep frying
  • Saffron A pinch

Instructions
 

  • For preparing chirotee, sift the maida.
  • Mix the two table spoons ghee with maida and add water and knead well. The dough should be hard.
  • Make equal sized small lemon shaped balls.
  • Roll them into circles of 6 cm diameter to thin rounds.
  • Brush melted ghee over each circles.
  • Stack the four rotis one on top of another.
  • Roll them to a cylindrical shape. Now cut the cylinder to small 2 cm pieces evenly.
  • Roll these individal pieces to small circles.
  • In a pan, make a sugar syrup by adding the sugar to equal amount of water and saffron. The syrup should leave a thin trail when you pour with a ladle.
  • Switch off the fire.
  • In a pan, heat the ghee and fry the rolled rotis.
  • Drain and immediately soak them in the sugar syrup
  • After 5 minutes, arrange them in a serving plate. They can be stored in a container for about a week.
  • Chirotee is ready.
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