INGREDIENTS FOR VISHETI
- 1 1/2 kg wheat Flour
- 1 Cap Vannila Essence (Bottle Cap of Vannila)
- 2 Tablespoon of melted Butter
- 3 Tablespoon of Custard powder
- 1/4 Litre Milk/1/4 cup of water
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 Litre Cooking Oil
INGREDIENTS FOR SUGAR SYRUP
- 1 cup of water
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 10 Cardamon pieces
METHOD OF PREPARING VISHETI
- Melt the butter
- Mix salt,custard powder , melted butter into the wheat flour
- Pour the milk little by little and mix,
- Pull the mixture to form a dough( If you like non soft visheti/vikokoto do not knead the dough)
- Divide the dough into 3 balls
- Cut the dough using your hand and knife to make them long and thin dough
- Take a knife cut each strips into smaller piece
- The pieces are redy to be deep fried immediately
HOW TO DEEP FRY VISHETI
- Heat oil in the frying pan until hot
- Pick few squares and place them in hot oil
Let it cool before coating your visheti into sugar syrup
COATING VISHETI IN SUGAR SYRUP
- Put the sugar into a pan, add the water, vanilla and cardamom mix well
- Let the mixture boil and lower the heat and let it simmer
- Let it simmer until it thickens slightly
- Add all the fried Vishete into the syrup.
- Toss/Shake the vishete in sugar syrup
- keep shaking the pot to toss the vishete up and down and putting it back on the heat until sugar coating turns whitish over visheti
- Remove from heat and Put on plate and let them cool completely.
You can then store them in an airtight container to retain their crunchiness.
