Sweet Thukkada Recipe | Sweet Diamond Cuts Recipe

This is a sweeter version of thukkada (Spicy Diamond Cuts) and this is for the sweet lovers. This Sweet Diamond Cuts or Diamond Biscuits is a very simple to do dish and it doesn't require any expertise level to prepare. Any new beginners can also try this simple dish and it may never go wrong. This is also one of the traditional and famous sweet dish especially for Diwali. It is a tradition for us to make sweets and snacks for Diwali not only for our family, but we also love to share with our friends and relatives. Some of the sweet dishes like seven cup cakes, coconut burfi, Instant Doodh beda etc are easy to make with less effort and also we would get more quantities to distribute. Sweet Thukada (Sweet Diamond Cuts or Diamond Biscuits) is one such dish which is simple to make, yummy and also we would get more quantity for distribution.

This easy dish is made with maida, sugar and ghee which are readily available in all our homes and the preparation time is much less too. Try this simple Diamond biscuits for this diwali and share with your friends and relatives.

Sweet Thukkada Recipe | Sweet Diamond Cuts Recipe | Sweet Diamond Biscuits Recipe

Preparation and Yield:

Preparation time	30 mins
Cooking Time	1 hour
Yield	500gms

Ingredients:

Maida / All purpose flour	2 Cups*
Ghee	2 tablespoon
Cooking Soda	1/4 teaspoon
Salt	a pinch
Sugar	1/2 Cup
Cardamom Powder	1/2 teaspoon
Oil	For deep frying

*1 Cup = 250ml

Sweet Thukkada Recipe | Sweet Diamond Cuts Recipe | Sweet Diamond Biscuits Recipe

Method to Prepare Thukkada:

Take a mixing bowl, add ghee, sugar, salt, cardamom powder and cooking soda and stir well till you it turns foamy and the sugar gets dissolved in ghee mixture

Add the Maida flour/All purpose flour to the sugar mxiture and mix well.

Once you mix the maida and ghe mixture, you could see it as a crumble mixture. Add water little but little and and make this into a soft dough like chapati dough

Cover it with a damp cloth or clinging film and keep it aside for 30 minutes. After half an hour, make 4 equal balls out of the dough and keep it aside

Take the chapati pan and rolling pin and keep 1 ball of the Maida flour/All purpose flour mixture and roll it like a chapati by dusting it with all purpose flour. Using a knife cut the Maida flour/All purpose flour dough into small diamond pieces

Place the diamond shaped pieces in a paper and allow it to dry. Repeat the above steps for the remaining balls and allow all the diamond shaped pieces to dry completely. In a pan, heat the oil and when the oil is hot, add handful of dried diamond shaped thukkadas and sprinkle it so that they are not stick to each other. fry it until it becomes crisp. Take the crisp thukkadas and keep it in a bowl with a paper tissue to dry the excess oil.