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Khaja, Oriya Recipe
Khaja, a sweet dish from the Orissa kitchen, is served regularly as prasad at the Jagannath Temple of Puri.

Khaja, Oriya RecipeIngredients:
  • 2 cups refined flour
  • A little more than 1/2 cup of pure ghee
  • 11/2 cup of sugar
  • 11/2 cup of refined cooking


    • Method:
  • Make a paste of ghee and flour by mixing half a cup of ghee with equal quantity of flour. Keep this paste aside.
  • Add a pinch of salt and three teaspoon of ghee to the remaining flour.
  • Knead the same and make stiff dough.
  • Roll the dough into a rectangular shape and the thickness would be that of a chapatti. Spread the ghee-four mixture evenly over the rectangular surface.
  • Roll the rectangular dough from one side to give it a rope like shape
  • Cut it into one inch size pieces.
  • Roll each piece again to make about 5 inch long khaja.
  • Heat oil in a frying pan and deep-fry the pieces of khaja on a medium flame.


    • Syrup for Khaja:
  • Prepare syrup of sugar with water
    • .
  • Add sugar to boiling water and continuously go on stirring till to get sticky syrup.
  • Dip the khajas into it (one at a time) and take out
    • .
  • Serve after these become cold.


    • (Last Updated on : 21/01/2010)
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