Phenori | Chiroti | Kaja Sweet Recipe
Phenori or Chiroti is a delicious, layered, crispy and crunchy, melt-in-mouth sweet recipe dipped in sugar syrup or coated with powdered sugar. I must warn you that you cannot just stop eating one.
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time30 minutes mins
Total Time45 minutes mins
Course: Desserts, sweets
Cuisine: bengal, bombay, Coastal Karnataka, gujarati, Indian, Karnataka, kolkata, Konkani, Mangalore, Mumbai, Udupi
Servings: 20
Calories: 158kcal
- 2 cups All purpose Flour or Maida
- 4 tablespoon Ghee or Melted Butter
- Salt , a pinch
- Water , to knead dough (approx ½ cup to ¾ cup)
- 3 tablespoon Rice Flour
- 3 tablespoon Ghee
- Vegetable oil , for frying
For Sugar Syrup
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 cups Water
- ⅛ to ¼ teaspoon Cardamom powder
Step I
In a bowl, add maida (flour), ghee, and salt, and mix well. Now add water little by little as required and start kneading to form a smooth and firm dough. Cover this and keep it aside for 1 hour.
2 cups All purpose Flour, 4 tablespoon Ghee, Salt, Water
While the dough is resting you can make the sugar syrup.
Step II
Add rice flour, 3 tablespoon of ghee in bowl and mix well. Keep this aside.
3 tablespoon Rice Flour, 3 tablespoon Ghee
This is used to bind the rotis and helps give those phenoris its beautiful layers.
Step III
Divide the dough into 6 equal portions. Make thin rotis or flatbreads out of it.
Place one roti on the working surface, spread the rice flour-ghee paste on the roti . On top of this place another roti, and again spread the rice flour-ghee paste and place the third roti and spread the rice flour–ghee paste for one last time.
Now roll them and cut into around ½ inch thick circles. Typically, you can make approx 10 circles out of 1 roll.
Repeat the same process for other 3 rotis. Now using the rolling pin roll each thick circle into small thin circle around 4 to 5 inch in diameter.
Step IV
Heat the oil in a pan on medium flame for frying.
Vegetable oil
Once the oil is hot, place 3 to 4 rotis at a time depending on the size of the pan. Flip them and fry on both the sides till you see that it is crispy and golden brown in color.
Transfer them to a paper towel. Coat the fried chirotis immediately in the sugar syrup and transfer it to a serving plate. This means sugar syrup must be ready before frying.
For sugar syrup
Heat water and sugar in a pan. Continue this process till sugar is melted, then reduce the flame to simmer and continue till you get single thread consistency (i.e. the syrup 'thread' does not break when your forefinger and thumb is pulled part gently).
1 cup Sugar, 2 cups Water
Add the cardamom powder and mix well. If this gets thickened by the time you finish frying you can always add little water and heat again.
⅛ to ¼ teaspoon Cardamom powder
- See that oil is hot and you fry them on medium flame.
- Coat the chirotis immediately after frying.
- You can use store-bought confectioners sugar and add cardamom powder and mix well or you can powder the sugar and cardamom and mix well and sprinkle on the phenoris or chirotis immediately after frying instead of sugar syrup.
Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 17mg | Potassium: 15mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 0.3IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 1mg