Sweet Mathri

Ingredients list for Sweet Mathri

• 2 cups Refined flour
• 3 cups + 2 teaspoons Sugar
• 4 tablespo Ghee
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon Fennel seeds (saunf)
• 1 teaspoon Lemon juice

Method

1. Mix refined flour, ghee and salt in a bowl. Add a little water and knead into a stiff dough. Cover and rest the dough for fifteen minutes.
2. Meanwhile cook three cups of sugar in another pan with one and a half cups of water to make a syrup of two thread consistency. Pound fennel seeds with two teaspoons of sugar to a coarse powder. Add it to the dough and knead. Add lemon juice to the syrup. If any scum rises to the top, remove it.
3. Divide the dough into twenty to twenty four equal portions. Press each with your hand to form a disc of around one and half inches diameter.
4. Heat sufficient ghee in a kadai and deep fry the mathris on medium heat till crisp. Take care that the mathris do not turn brown.
5. Drain and place them in a colander in a single layer. Pour the syrup over.
6. Once the mathris have cooled, serve or store in an airtight container.

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