🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Chirote

Name: Chirote
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 4 tbsp, divided Ghee; 2 cups All-Purpose Flour; 1/2 cup, for dusting Sugar; for deep frying Peanut Oil; 2 tbsp Rice Flour; 4, powdered Green Cardamom

🇮🇳 Indian

The flaky pastry flower of Marathwada — ghee-layered dough fried into puffed blossoms and dusted with cardamom sugar. Each layer shatters separately; that's the test.

Prep 40 min Cook 20 min Serves 6 Hard

Ingredients

Ghee4 tbsp, divided
All-Purpose Flour2 cups
Sugar1/2 cup, for dusting
Peanut Oilfor deep frying
Rice Flour2 tbsp
Green Cardamom4, powdered

Instructions

1
Knead maida with ghee and water into a soft dough; rest 30 minutes.
2
Make a rice-flour paste with melted ghee for layering.
3
Roll thin sheets, smear with paste, stack and roll into logs.
4
Slice and press each piece into flower shapes.
5
Fry on medium-low till puffed pale gold; dust with cardamom sugar.

Chef's tip

The ghee-rice paste must be smooth as cream — grainy paste tears the layers.

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Video: चिरोटे | Chirote | Diwali Recipe | Sanjeev Kapoor Khazana · on YouTube