Lifeline

Ingredients

• 1365 grams flower

• 7 teaspoons sesame seeds

• 7 teaspoons baking powder

• 840 ml water

• 1400 grams sugar (buy more to be sure)

• 240 ml water (for the syrup)

• 4 liters of frying oil

Recipe

• Mix the flower, baking powder and sesame seeds in a bowl.

• Add the water bit by bit and knead into a dough for 10 minutes.

• Cover the bowl with a cloth and let is rest for at least 20 minutes. 

• Add the water for the syrup and the sugar to a pan (don’t add all the water at once, likely you wont need all of it).

• Heat the syrup and stur regularly with a spoon for 15 minutes. When it becomes sticky and runny, lower the flame.

• Knead the dough for a few minutes.

• Grab a small portion of the dough and roll into a rod.

• Cut the dough in smaller pieces en make it into smaller rods (site for pictures: https://newarirecipeshut.com/recipe/lakhamari/)

• Heat the oil in a frying pan

• Fry the dough rods until golden brown.

• Dip the rods in the sugary syrup.

• let them drain on a rack for 30 minutes.