Baghlaw-e-Khanagi

Name: Baghlaw-e-Khanagi
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 21 min
Total time: 36 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Afghanistan
Ingredients: 1.3 lb flour; 3 eggs; 1 ¾ cups + 2 tbsp milk; ¼ cup + 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 ¾ oz ground walnuts; ⅓ oz cardamom; 11 oz sugar; 4 ¼ cups water

A weekend Afghanistan dessert. Ready in about 36 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

15 minPrep (about)
21 minCook (about)
36 minTotal time
4Servings
More effortDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 3 people +

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1 lb flour
2 eggs
1 ⅓ cups + 1 tbsp milk
¾ tsp baking powder
1 ⅓ oz ground walnuts
8 oz sugar
3 ¼ cups water

Sauces & oils

4 tbsp vegetable oil

Spices & seasonings (1): cardamom

¼ oz cardamom

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Place flour in a bowl, plus create a hole in your middle of the flour.
Whisk eggs.
Pour whisked eggs into the well.
Add milk, and mix.
Stir in cardamom, baking powder and the ground walnuts.
Add to the mixture.
Fold ingredients in the mix until it forms an elastic dough consistency.
From the longest side of the rectangle.
Fold the dough in 1 ¼ inches-wide lines, till your dough is rolled in a long line.
Cut folded dough horizontally into 1 ¼ inches pieces.
Heat a deep pan of your vegetable oil, plus wait till it reaches frying temperature.
Whilst you are waiting.
Fill a deep pan using 3 ¼ cups of water.
Bring to the boil.
Pour in the sugar.
Stir until it becomes thick and syrup-like.
Turn down the heat.
Leave to simmer.
Lower every piece of dough into the frying oil.
Fry until golden.
Wait until golden.
Take the Baghlaw bits out of the oil.
Place them in the sugar syrup to coat.
Remove from your syrup and whilst still warm.
Sprinkle using ground walnuts, so they stick to your Baghlaw.
Leave to cool.