Meethay Godhay

This month's Indian cooking challenge is a Hyderabadi sweet - Meethay Godhay. A simple dessert made with wheat flour or maida dough shaped into small flowers and is cooked in milk and sugar. Then it is lavishly garnished with raisins and almonds shallow fried in ghee elevating the taste to a higher level. I should admit that prep-ping up this dish is time consuming. Since there is no gain without pain, I have nothing much to complain about this. Shaping the first two to three pieces were tricky and once you get a knack of it, then its a piece of cake. This sweet dish is very different - chewy, sweet and in between bites crunchy nuts. A rare traditional Indian sweet. This recipe is adapted from Zaiqa.

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Meetha Godhay

Flower shaped dough made with durum flour is dried and is cooked in sugar and milk and garnished with raisins and almonds.

Prep time: 20 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Inactive time:Overnight | Total time: 45 mins | Serves: 4

Ingredients

1 ½ cup Durum Flour (you can also use maida)
¼ teaspoon Salt
Water To knead the dough
Canola oil (you can also use a little bit of ghee for nice flavor)

For the Milk Sauce

2 cups Milk
1 cup Sugar
3 Tbsp Raisins and sliced almonds , shallow fried

Instructions

Mix the flour, salt in a bowl and knead it into a soft and pliable dough by adding water. Rest the dough for about 30 minutes.
Again knead the dough for 2-3 minutes and divide it into small logs.
Roll out each log as thin as possible into discs with the help of rolling pin. Try to dust it with minimum flour while rolling it out.
With the help of a butter knife or pizza cutter cut them into small squares. Take each square piece and shape it like a flower. Lift each edge, fold and press to you get a flower shape as in the pic .
Allow these to dry overnight or at least for 5-6 hours.
Once dried, deep fry them and keep aside.

For the Milk Sauce

Heat milk and a cup of water in a heavy bottomed pan over medium heat. Add these small pieces and cook them for about 15-20 minutes until they become soft. Add more water to cook it through if needed.
Then add the sugar and bring it to a boil. Finally add the fried raisins and almonds.

Notes

You can use plain wheat flour or Maida or all purpose flour.
Try to use minimum flour for dusting. If you use more flour, shaping will be difficult. You need a little moist to hold the shape.

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