Add sweetness to your Holi celebrations with Halwai-style Meethi Mathri

Holi is one such festival that evokes joy and enthusiasm with the sky filled with an array of colours. This year it will be celebrated on 8 March. While people celebrate Holi in different ways in different states, food is a central aspect of the festival. No festival in India is complete without scrumptious food. On the occasion of Holi, delicious dishes like Pakodas, Namkeen, Gujiya and Chaat are made in homes, which we all enjoy. One of the famous snacks made during the festival of Holi is mathri, a savory snack that can be prepared in different ways like methi mathri, achari mathri and plain mathri. However, in this post, we will be sharing the recipe of Meethi Mathri to make your Holi celebrations more enjoyable.

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Mathri is a crispy snack relished by people of all age groups and enjoyed with a cup of hot tea. The sweet version of mathri, also known as meethi mathri, is made by dipping the snack in sugar syrup, giving it a sweet twist. These sweet mathris can be stored for up to a month, making them an ideal snack for Holi preparations. To make halwai-style meethi mathri at home, you can watch the recipe video shared by YouTuber vlogger Reshu on her channel Cook With Reshu.

Here’s How You Can Make Halwai-Style Meethi Mathri

• Take 2 cups all purpose flour in a bowl and add 1 tsp salt and ghee to it and mix all the ingredients well. Knead this mixture with lukewarm water into a hard dough and keep it covered for some time. Once the dough rests, make small balls and roll them with a round cutter or a small bowl to make small sized mathris. Prepare all the mathris and keep them aside.
• Take a large pan or kadhai, heat oil and set the flame to low. Put the mathris in the pan, but do not stir them. Let them come up on their own, and then turn them over with a spatula, frying them until they are golden brown. Take out the mathri from the oil and keep it separately.
• To prepare sugar syrup, take 2 cups of sugar and add one cup of water to it. Cook the syrup while stirring the syrup. When the syrup is ready, put this mathri in it and cook it with the syrup till it thickens. Turn off the gas and after a while your Mathri is ready. Watch the full video here:

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