Tapeswaram Kaja

Tapeswaram Kaja is one of the most famous and traditional sweet from Andhra Pradesh. Tapeswaram kaja or Madata kaja both are same. Tapeswaram is a small town in East Godavari distrist in Andhra pradesh. Where the Kaja was born and became very popular all over Andhra Pradesh. This sweet is specially made for marriages and all other occasions in Telugu family's.
INGREDIENTS:-
For dough-----
Maida   ---- 1 cup
Baking powder  --  1/2 tea sp
A pinch of salt
Ghee  ---  1/4 cup
Oil for deep frying
For paste --
Ghee   --- 5 tea sp
Rice flour  --- 1/4 cup
Sugar powder  --- 1 tab sp
For sugar syrup:--
Sugar  -- 2 cups
Water  --- 1 and 1/2 cup.
METHOD:--
Mix ghee and rice flour for paste and set a side.
                                                         

For dough--

Mix maida and ghee in a bowl and rub between your palms this should look like bread crums then add water and make a soft dough and leave it for 10-30mins.
Make a syrup with sugar and water, remove from heat just before it geting single string consistency. Other wise when you drop hot kajas in to the syrup the temparature  will increese and your kajas will coat with a white sugar layer after few hours.
                                                        

Make small balls from the dough and make very thin chapati (this chapatis should be realy thin so make them as thin as possible) and keep a side.

Make three or four chapatis like this.

Take one chapati and spread rice flour and ghee paste on it and keep 2nd chapati on top of it apply paste on the second chapati and place third chapati on top of it and aply ghee and rice flour paste on the third chapati also . That means you have to make layers with chapatis spreading rice flour and ghee  paste in between the chapatis.
And fold it like a mat and rool it and cut into 1 inch pieces and lightly roll to make them little flat (don't press the hard other wise the inner layers will stick together and they don't open when we fry in the hot oil.).
                                                       

 

 

Now heat oil in a deep frying pan, first heat oil in a high flame then reduce the heat to low and drop kajas one by one slowly in to the hot oil.Fry kajas till golden in a low heat.
                                                           

When they turn in to nice golden color remove from oil drop kajas immedieatly in to sugar syrup let them sit in the syrup for five minutes then remove from sugar syrup.
Store Tapeswaram Kajas in a airtight cantainer. This kajas will stay for ten days but when fresh they taste wonderful.
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