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Khapse ~ Deep Fried Traditional Biscuits from Arunachal Pradesh

Course Sweets
Cuisine Arunachal Pradesh
Author Srivalli

Ingredients

  • 2 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 2 - 3 tbsp Cooking Oil
  • 1/2 - 3/4 cup Sugar as per your taste
  • 1/2 cup Milk or as required
  • 1 quart Sunflower Oil for deep frying

Instructions

How to make Khapse

  • Dissolve the sugar in 1 cup of warm water.
  • In a wide bowl, take the flour, add cooking oil, slowly add the milk.
  • Mix everything together and knead to a soft dough.
  • Pinch out big balls, dust, and roll out the dough to about a 1/4 inch thickness. Make sure you don't use a lot of flour as it will dunk more oil.
  • Cut the dough in strips (maybe about an inch or a little less), then cut those strips into diagonal pieces. Try to make the pieces roughly the same size, so that they can cook at the same rate. Slice a slot in the middle of each piece of dough.
  • Pull one corner of the piece of dough through the slot in the middle, creating a twist. Pull the two ends of your nyapsha a little to even out the shape a bit. Once you have a batch ready, heat the cooking oil.
  • Make sure the oil is hot enough. Then, slowly slide the Khapse making sure you don't splash the hot oil. Fry in batches and do not crowd the oil.
  • Cook the khapse on medium, making sure it is cooked all through. Then, remove with a slotted spoon on to kitchen towel.

Notes

  1. If you have not added much sugar in the dough, you can sprinkle some powdered sugar if you like. But, these are normally as such with sweet tea or Tibetan tea.
  2. Store the khapse in an air-tight container and you can keep them quite a while, though they do of course get hard over time. But, everything got over the moment it was served.
  3. The khapse is usually made as the nyapsha (split fish), which is made of dough rolled out like a length of rope, coiled flat and then stretched out. The bulug is a flat circular khapsay made up of crisp.
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