Thekua -bihari fried sweet (cookies)

Ingredients

• Wheat Flour: 1 cup
• Fresh grated Coconut :2-4 tablespoon
• Cardamom powdered: 1/4 teaspoon
• Ghee: 1 tablespoon
• Jaggery Syrup: 4-6 tbsp as needed to make a dough.
• Ghee for Deep Frying: 1/2 cup + as needed

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Preparation

• In a big bowl, mix together wheat flour (aatta), coconut grated,ghee and cardamom. Add 1/4 cup jaggery syrup and knead to form a dough.
• Keep on adding 1 tablespoon of jaggery syrup as needed to make a smooth dough.You can use dry coconut flakes or coconut powder instread of fresh coconut.
• Also other additions are chopped dryfruits,pepper powder ,fennel seed powder or whatever you like. Normal sugar syrup (sugar dissolved in water) can be used instead of jaggery syrup.
• Pinch small balls of the dough, pat into rounds, slightly flatten them and press them on a mould/saancha to get a flat patterned cookie shape.
  
• Heat ghee in a kadai/pan for deep frying and deep fry the cookies 2-3 at a time to a deep brown /reddish brown colour. Drain on paper towels.

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