Sindhi Khorak recipe
Khorak/Majoon is a traditional sweet loaded with nuts.
Servings: 12
Equipment
- saucepan
- Frying pan (prefer cast iron or carbon steel)
- baking tray
Ingredients
- ¾ cup flour or 125 gms by weight
- ½ cup ghee or clarified butter or 125 gms by weight
- ½ cup water or 125 ml by weight
- ¾ cup jaggery/gud or 175 gms by weight or you may use ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup mixed nuts cashews,almonds,walnuts,raisins chopped finely, or 60 gm by weight in total
- 1 tbsp. Khuskhus/poppy seeds
- 2 tbsp. desiccated coconut
- 3-4 cardamom seeds only
- 1 tbsp. gond edible gum / Gond katira (optional)
Instructions
- (optional step) Heat 2 tablespoon ghee in a pan. Add pieces of edible gum or gond and cook until they are golden brown. Keep the pieces of gond aside, keep the ghee for later use in the recipe. Crush the pieces of gond once cool.
- In a pan,add flour and cook on low or medium flame stirring continuously until light brown, this will take around 10-12 minutes.
- Add ghee to roasted flour and stir well. Let it cook on a low flame.
- Keep stirring so that it it is evenly cooked and gets a good brown hue.
- Add poppy seeds and crushed gond .Mix well.
- Add the desiccated coconut, chopped nuts, along with cardamom powder to the flour.
- Heat water in a sauce pan. Add jaggery or sugar to it. Let it boil until you get one taar chashni. When you touch the liquid, it should feel sticky. This step can be done in parallel to making the flour mixture.
- Add jaggery/ sugar syrup to the khorak mixture. Cook for 1-2 minutes on a medium heat.
- Turn off the heat once the jaggery/sugar syrup has been absorbed.
- Grease a tray and set the khorak mix by spreading evenly with a spatula. Alternatively, you can line a tray with baking sheet and set it. Mark incisions to cut into slices.Garnish with thinly chopped nuts or raisins as per your choice.
- Let this set for 2-3 hours and cut into required shapes.
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Notes
Note: You can also replace jaggery with sugar.
Jaggery and poppy seeds are added as this sweet is made at onset of winter for Diwali.These ingredients are heat inducing so increase immunity of the body naturally against changing cold weather.Please check with the doctor ,before including in your diet,in case of any allergies or medical conditions.
Jaggery and poppy seeds are added as this sweet is made at onset of winter for Diwali.These ingredients are heat inducing so increase immunity of the body naturally against changing cold weather.Please check with the doctor ,before including in your diet,in case of any allergies or medical conditions.