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Sweet Diamond Cuts | Sweet Maida Biscuit | Sweet Thukkada Recipe

Sweet Diamond Cuts are a crunchy and slightly sweet made using Maida (All purpose Flour) and Sugar. This is one of the easiest sweet that can be prepared for Diwali or for an event. This can be made as a savory version as well as sweet version.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil Nadu
Servings: 500 grams
Calories: 243kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

  • Heavy Bottomed Pan
  • Chapati Pan and Rolling Pin

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Maida (All Purpose Flour) 1 cup = 250 ml
  • 2 tbsp Ghee (Clarified butter)
  • ¼ tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • ½ cup Sugar
  • ½ tsp Cardamom Powder
  • Cooking Oil for deep frying

Instructions

Prepare Sugar syrup

  • Take a mixing bowl, add ghee, sugar, salt, cardamom powder and cooking soda and stir well till you it turns foamy and the sugar gets dissolved in ghee mixture

Making of the Dough

  • Add the Maida flour/All purpose flour to the sugar mxiture and mix well. 
  • Once you mix the maida and ghe mixture, you could see it as a crumble mixture. Add water little by little and and make this into a soft dough like chapati dough
  • Cover it with a damp cloth or clinging film and keep it aside for 30 minutes. After half an hour, make 4 equal balls out of the dough and keep it aside

Making of the Diamond biscuit

  • Take the chapati pan and rolling pin and keep 1 ball of the Maida flour/All purpose flour mixture and roll it like a chapati by dusting it with all purpose flour. Using a knife cut the Maida flour/All purpose flour dough into small diamond pieces
  • Place the diamond shaped pieces in a paper and allow it to dry. Repeat the above steps for the remaining balls and allow all the diamond shaped pieces to dry completely. 

Deep Frying the biscuit

  • In a pan, heat the oil and when the oil is hot, add handful of dried diamond shaped thukkadas and sprinkle it so that they are not stick to each other.  fry it until it becomes crisp. Take the crisp thukkadas and keep it in a bowl with a paper tissue to dry the excess oil.
  • The tasty and crispy Sweet Diamond Cuts(Thukkadas) or Sweet Diamond Biscuits are ready to serve!

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Notes

  • Store it in Air tight container and use it for longer shelf life
  • Instead of adding sugar directly in the dough, you can cook the biscuits first and later you can soak it in sugar syrup
  • Cut the diamond based on the size that you prefer. 
  • Instead of Maida, you can replace it with Wheat flour too. 
  • Fry the biscuits on Medium flame

Nutrition

Serving: 1cup | Calories: 243kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 10g | Sodium: 170mg | Sugar: 15g