Reshteh Khoshkar Recipe – Best Persian Sweets in Ramadan
A famous Iranian sweet and dessert that is usually served after breaking the fast in Ramadan
Reshteh khoshkar is one of the delicious and unique sweets of Gilan, which requires special skills to make. This local sweet is prepared semi-prepared, then fried in oil and served with tea.
The recipe for this dessert is very simple and does not require much time. The name of this sweet is derived from its shape.
The main ingredients of this sweet are dough made from rice flour and filled with ingredients such as nuts, sugar, and cinnamon. Then, it is fried in oil and served.
In this article from the meals cook site, we will teach you how to prepare this dessert simply. So stay with us.
What is Reshteh Khoshkar?
Reshteh Khoshkar is one of the sweets of the month of Ramadan, which belongs to the city of Gilan in the north of Iran. Its ingredients are rice flour, white flour, special syrup, and intermediate ingredients made from cinnamon, sugar, and walnut kernels.
This sweet is prepared in Tehran and most cities during the holy month of Ramadan. The taste of this sweet is delicious, and if you like the taste of walnuts and cinnamon, prepare it for an iftar or evening meal.
In the following, you will see a famous definition of this sweet selected from the Wikipedia site.
Reshteh khoshkar is the traditional cookie especially for Ramadan in Gilan Province, Iran. It is made of rice flour, and filled with sugar, ground walnuts or hazelnuts, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and spice, fried in hot oil or fat.[1] Made of rice flour, wheat flour, sugar, almonds, walnuts, and cinnamon, it is slowly fried in oil.
For: 4 to 6 people
Preparation time:30 minutes
Cooking time:15 minutes
Ingredients for dough:
| Rice flour | 1 cup |
| Wheat flour | 2 cups |
| Water | Three glasses |
Ingredients for inner:
| Chopped walnuts | 100 grams |
| Cardamom powder(hel spice) | Three tablespoons |
| Cinnamon | Three tablespoons |
| Sugar | 1 cup |
Ingredients for syrup:
| Water | 1/5 glass |
| Sugar | Two glasses |
| Rose water | ¼ glass |
| Lemon juice in a small amount of saffron, cinnamon, and cardamom powder | in small amount |
Instruction:
1. Prepare dough
In the first step, you should combine a glass of rice flour with two glass of wheat flour. Then, add the water gradually and prepare the dough.
You can also use an electric mixer to make a dough. After mixing all the amount of water and flour, mix for 5 minutes until thoroughly combined.
After the water and flour are well combined, discard the dough from a filter to have a soft dough. The dough should rest at ambient temperature for 1 to 2 hours after preparation.
2. Pouring the dough into a frying pan
After preparing the dough, you should pour it into the pan in a special way. To do this, you need special tools that are usually inaccessible in other cities.
For this reason, it is best to make your tool for making a beautiful sweet.
Below, you can learn how to make a funnel. At this point, you should first grease the pan with some oil. To do this, you only need to apply an oil-soaked cloth on the bottom of the pan to make it slightly greasy.
Then, pour the dough into a special funnel, which is liquid, and dilute and spread it into the frying pan. You must pour the dough into a frying pan to make it look like a mesh.
3. Removing the dough from the frying pan
After pouring the dough into a frying pan, fry it for a few seconds to bake. When the dough has changed slightly, remove it from the frying pan before darkening. Note that the flame must be set to low heat at this stage.
Because the dough is very thin and sensitive, it will quickly darken and burn. For this reason, you should reduce the flame and remove it from the pan within seconds when it is still completely soft and flexible.
4. Preparing inner ingredients
In this step, to prepare the ingredients inside the sweet, you should combine finely chopped or ground walnuts with some sugar, cinnamon, and cardamom powder in a bowl and mix well.
You can taste it and change some of it to fit your tastes.
5. Pouring the ingredients into this sweet
You must go to the half-cooked dough of this sweet at this stage. Spread it on a flat surface. Then, fold the two sides inwards.
Pour the inner ingredients into these noodles. Note that you should not spread the inner ingredients in every part.
Pouring one or two spoons in the middle of the half-baked sweet is only necessary. Then, fold it into a roll and press the two sides of these noodles to make them firm.
Do this procedure for all of them and then place them on a cotton textile to cool
6. Frying
In the last step, after preparing all of them, you should fry them in oil. Pour some oil into a frying pan and let it heat up completely.
Then, arrange the noodles in the pan. When one side of it is golden, turn it over so that the other side is also golden.
7. Putting in syrup
If you wish, you can also eat this sweet without putting it in the syrup. But traditionally, these sweets are usually put in syrup and then served.
To make the syrup, you should combine water, sugar, rose water, saffron, and some lemon juice and put it on low heat.
Let the syrup thicken a little, and then after frying this, dip it in the syrup and eat it. koloocheh fooman is also sweet from the north of Iran.
How to prepare the funnel(tool) :
To make homemade Persian sweets, you need a funnel with several holes. You can make a few holes in the plastic bottle cap for this.
For the dough to come out of the bottle more easily and regularly, you can make a hole in the lid and put some reeds in it. So that the reed is firmly placed inside these holes.
You can use a hot nail to poke holes in the plastic bottle cap and then quickly press the reeds into each hole to secure them firmly.
What is served with this Persian sweet?
Besides this delicious sweet that is usually served during Ramadan, you can also use Iranian tea. One of the hot drinks is made from black tea.
Brewed black tea has a bitter taste and is very balanced with the sweet taste of this sweet.
If you don’t have Iranian tea or black tea at home, you can use hot drinks that suit your taste, such as coffee and green tea.
Notes :
| No. | Notes and tips |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you want the color of this sweet to be more colorful, you can use a little thick brewed saffron. |
| 2 | You can use pistachio or hazelnut powder instead of walnuts for inner ingredients. |
| 3 | You can use all kinds of aromatic spices like ginger for inner ingredients. |
| 4 | You can store it in the refrigerator for two days. |
| 5 | If the dough is too loose, add a little flour; if it is too hard, add a little water. |
| 6 | With this amount, you will have about 40 reshteh khoshkar. |
| 7 | After frying these noodles, you should grease the pan again with an oiled brush so that the ingredients can be easily separated from the pan. |
| 8 | You can prepare these sweets and keep them in the freezer if you like. Then, fry it out of the freezer whenever you want. |
| 9 | To decorate them, you can pour some pistachio powder or coconut powder on it. |
| 10 | You can use milk instead of water to prepare these sweet noodles. |
| 11 | Instead of mixing rice flour and wheat, you can use only rice flour to prepare it. |
| 12 | This sweet is also prepared with starch. You should use white flour and starch instead of wheat flour and rice flour to make the dough for this delicious dessert. |
FAQ
1. What is the main ingredient in reshteh khoshkar?
Rice flour, Wheat flour, and Water are the main ingredients in this sweet.
2. What is served with this sweet?
Reshte khoshkar is served with Persian tea and coffee.
3. Can I freeze this sweet?
You can fry Khoshkar noodles immediately or keep them in the freezer for 2-3 months and fry them when needed.
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What is this tools?
Can i buy this from you?
Hello, dear Chef Zahed
It is a handmade tool for producing noodls for reshteh khoshkar
If you pay attention, I have taught you how to make this tool at home in a simple way
Good luck