Maida Diamond biscuits recipe

Diamond biscuit is a home made South Indian sweets snacks. This diamond biscuits has shelf life for 3-4 days. My mom prepares the diamond biscuits using atta / wheat flour.  She usually won't use maida in her cooking, as Maida doesn't have dietary fibres. For a change, I tried the recipe with Maida / All purpose flour. This mild sweet biscuits are usually served as a tea-time snacks. Please check below for step by step instructions and pictures for preparing South Indian Diamond biscuits.





Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 55 mins 
Ready In: 1 hour
Yields : 10 Servings

Ingredients:

Oil	For Frying
Sugar	1 Cup
Water	1 Cup
All purpose flour / Maida	As needed
Unsalted butter	1 tbsp
Salt	1 tsp
Baking powder	1/2 tsp

Instructions:

• Add 1 cup of sugar to 1 cup of Luke warm water. Stir it with spoon till the sugar dissolves.

• Add butter, salt, baking powder and required maida to the sugar water. Make a soft dough . The dough should be similar to chapati dough consistency.Knead well and allow the dough to rest for 10 minutes. 

• Take a fraction of a dough and make a ball the size of big lemon. Flatten the balls to 12-15 inches in diagonal using rolling pin.Using pizza cutter or knife cut the dough into diamond or square shapes.

• Heat enough oil to deep fry. To check whether oil is hot, drop a little dough into oil. If it bubbles up on top, then oil is hot. 

 

• Drop the diamond cuts in oil and deep fry till it is cooked and turns golden colour on both sides. Drain the excess oil by placing it in a paper towel.

• Repeat the above process for remaining dough.

Maida Diamond cut biscuits / Diamond biscuits recipe / Sweet diamond cut biscuit

Tips:

• Maida can be replaced fully with atta/ chapati flour. We can also use half maida and half atta flour.
• Once cooled, store the biscuits in air tight container for 3-4 days.
• Don't over crowd the biscuits while deep frying in oil.
• Fry the biscuits in medium flame.
• My grandma usually won't cut the biscuits in shapes using knife. she takes a lemon size dough and drops small quantities in oil directly. The shape won't be uniform, but it will reduce lot of effort spent for cutting the biscuits.