Ismaili Recipes - This blog contains our family recipes; mainly it is Ismaili (Khoja) cuisine, our family lived in Uganda for 3 generations so we have a marked East African(Swahili, Lugandi) Influence in our cooking AND in our language!! (Kutchi / Cutchi / Gujarati. In recent years with new additions to the family our cooking includes, English, Pakistani, Italian and Irish influences.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Mitha Thepla - Ismaili style
2 cups whole wheat flour (chapatti flour)
½ cup gur / gor / jaggery
1/2 cup milk
2 table spoon oil
1 tspn fennel seeds
½ ground Cardamom
½ tspn ground Nutmeg
Vegetable oil for frying
1/2 table spoon sliced almonds
1 table spoon poppy seeds
Flour Paste
1 tablespoon flour
enough water to make a thick paste (3/4 of tablespoon)
1. Mix the flour, fennel seeds, cardamom and nutmeg.
2. Rub in the oil, so that the mixture looks like fine bread crumbs
3. Melt the gur in the microwave (2 minutes or so) and mix with the milk
5. Add it to the flour and make a soft dough
6. Roll into ¾ inch and cut into circles using a biscuit cutter.
7. Sprinke the poppy seeds, and stick the almond slice in the centre using the flour paste
7. Fry
Hello Chachi, we the theplas are fried, should the heat be on high or medium?
ReplyDeletemedium hot
ReplyDeleteMy theplas start Breaking when put into the oil? Why
ReplyDeleteShould I throw away the whole dough? Total disaster
She should ve told to roll it with a rolling pin first then use cookie cutter n shape them , I think they r too thick , that's why they broke ..
ReplyDeletehi..are these theplas to be deep fried or shallow fried..thanks much.
ReplyDeleteDeep fried
ReplyDeleteDoesnt thepla have sooji in it?
ReplyDelete