Guyana Mithai Recipe (The secret to making it soft)
Ingredients
- 3 cups Flour
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 2 stick Butter
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 1/2 Carnation milk
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add the flour, butter and ghee (We are adding ghee to our recipe as it makes it softer)
- Add your sugar and mix together
- Next add the carnation milk and continue kneading to form a stiff dough
- Rest dough for 1/2 hour.
- Roll with a rolling pin about 1/2 inch thick.
- Use a pizza cutter or knife to cut into diamond shapes.
- Heat oil in a pan on the stove.
- Fry until golden brown.
- Pour the paag (sugar coating) and stir to coat.
Notes
To make the paag for the Mithai.
- In a pot, add 1 cup of water and 3 cups of white sugar with a small cinamon stick
- Boil until you reach a one string consistency. (See video if needed)