Ooty Varkey Recipe | Baked Ooty Varkey | How to make Ooty Varkey
Ooty varkey as the name implies is famous snacks from the hill station in Tamil Nadu, Ooty.
Servings 15
Ingredients
- Maida ¾ cup
- Sugar 2 tbsp
- Oil 2 tbsp
- Salt as required
- Water as needed
Layering
- Oil as required
- Maida as required
Instructions
- Take maida, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix.
- Add oil to it and mix till it is crumbly
- Add water little by little to form soft dough.
- Cover and set aside for 4-5 hours.
- Take dough in the counter.
- Roll them as thin rectangular sheet which is transparent. Apply oil so it doesn't stick.
- Then add little maida and oil and form the paste.
- Apply the paste all over the rolled dough.
- Then fold ⅓ rd of the rectangle both sides and bring together.
- Then add maida and oil again and form the paste and spread.
- Now again fold both the sides to form a square.
- Then roll it again to form rectangle.
- Then slice them as strips
- Lift each strip and pull and form round shape pinching in the top.
- Preheat oven to 180°C and bake in the same temperature for 40-45 minutes till it is brown.
- Cool on wire rack and enjoy with a cup of Tea/Coffee.
Notes
You can shape them as square or rectangle.
I added maida and oil in rough proportion for layering. you can adjust them.