Muharram 2020: Check out the recipe for ‘Dum-ke-Roat’

Dum ke roat are cooked on dum and they taste sweet and crispy. The roat or cookie kind of delicacies is made from sooji and maida and is prepared on Muharram 2020. These are crunchy from the outside, but soft inside that melts in your mouth. This confectionery has the all goodness in them, including dry fruits, khoa, exotic saffron, and glorious ghee.

Recipe of Dum ke Roat:
Ingredients: 
All-purpose flour / Maida – 4 cups 
Fine Semolina/Sooji – 2 cups 
Granulated Sugar – 4 cups 
Almonds – 1 cup Pistachios – 1/2 cup 
Cashews – 1/2 cup 
Raisins – 1/2 cup 
Saffron threads – 2 pinch 
Cardamom powder – 1 tsp 
Baking powder – 1 1/2 tbsp 
Khoya – 1 cup 
Ghee – 2 cups
Warmed Milk – 2 cups or as needed 

Method of preparing Dum ke Roat:

Soak the dry fruits almonds and Pistachios overnight in cold water, next morning peel the skin and slice them neatly. 

In a mixer, add the khoya and the warmed milk and blend to a smooth paste. 

Take a big mixing bowl, add sooji, maida, sugar, baking powder and cardamom powder, mix all these ingredients.
 
Now add ghee and few nuts that you peeled and mix it well. 

Knead to make the dough. Cover this dough and allow it to rest for at least one hour. 

Preheat oven to 185 C. 

Please make sure that the dough is sticky enough, grease your palm with ghee and flatten them into cookies like shape

Gently press few sliced dry fruits that you have with you on top of each roat

Place the baking sheets in the oven and bake for around 10-15 minutes

Allow it to cool. Now you can remove the baking sheets from the oven

Please store them in an airtight container at room temperature