Name: Maajun / Khoraak recipe by Lata Lala at BetterButter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Coarse Wheat flour 250 gms; Sugar 125 gms; Dryfruits like Cashews, Almonds & Pistachios chopped; Poppy seeds ( khaskhas) 25 gms; Black raisins 10 gms; Dry coconut cut into thin slices 25 gms; Clarified butter 125 gms or you can adjust the quantity less or more; Dry gond or edible gum 50 gms

ABOUT Maajun / Khoraak RECIPE

This sweet is made specially during the winter season. It is a dryfruits and khoya/mawa based mithai. This recipe is made in different ways in every sindhi house. My mother used to make it without khoya, as it would decrease the shelf life of dish. By adding mawa it becomes sweet and without it it becomes immunity booster. It is supposed to be taken during post delivery period by new Mother.

Ingredients Serving: 6

Coarse Wheat flour 250 gms
Sugar 125 gms
Dryfruits like Cashews, Almonds & Pistachios chopped
Poppy seeds ( khaskhas) 25 gms
Black raisins 10 gms
Dry coconut cut into thin slices 25 gms
Clarified butter 125 gms or you can adjust the quantity less or more
Dry gond or edible gum 50 gms

Instructions

In a heavy bottom kadhai heat clarified butter, coarse wheat flour and roast it on slow fire. Roast till colour turns into light brown.
Now add dry roasted poppy seeds, dry coconut slices, chopped dry fruits (reserve some for garnishing ) and black raisins. Add roasted and crushed gond/ edible Gum. Saute it for few minutes.
Now make sugar syrup (of 1 tar ki chashni) by mixing sugar into water and boil it till it dissolves on slow flame. Check between thumb and index finger for tar consistency.
Add this sugar syrup into flour and keep stirring it. Put off the flame and remove from flame. Grease thali with clarified butter and sprinkle chopped dry fruits over it. Pour wheat flour mixture over it.
Upon cooling Cut into pieces. Serve with warm milk or you can eat it as a dessert.

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