chirote

chirote maharashtrian delight

Ingredients

2cupflour / maida + 1 tablespoon

Oil for deep fry

4tablespoon sugar powder or dusting on chirote

Water as needed

Food color of your 2 -2 drop (I use pink )

5 tablespoons ghee

1/ 2 tablespoon rice flour 

Method

 In a big bowl add 1cup maida 2tablespoon oil / ghee  and rub it into flour using your fingertips. Knead dough adding little water at a time. And keep aside now in same bowl knead dough of 1cup maida  by adding pink colour or any other color of your choice  and keep it a side for 10 min ( make a hard dough)

Mean will make a paste in a small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon flour , rice flour  and ghee and keep aside. This paste is used for layering the chapati

Now divide the dough it into equal portions, make smooth ball and flatten and roll it evenly into circle like a chapati or roti make 2 chapati of both the  dough 

Now take one chapati(white one), brush it with the ghee paste on the surface, put another chapati (pink )over it, again brush some water on the surface. Now roll this layered chapati to make a log roll . Do pat the roll and flatten it with your hand. Instead, pick it up with both hands and roll it down .Now cut this roll into small pieces . Roll each ball into a disc of 4” diameter. Now heat a oil in a kadai /pan on a high flame once it hot , reduce flame to low now place 2 , 3 chirotis oil. fry the chirotis on a medium flame, till it become light golden and crispy , Remove on paper napkin , Immediately fried dust  powdered sugar over the fried chirote  . fry rest of the same way .let the chirotes  cool down and then store in an air-tight container you can store it for a month . and enjoy