Kusli

Fried sweet wheat pastry — maida or wheat flour dough sweetened with sugar and flavoured with cardamom, rolled thin, folded into triangles or half-moons, and deep-fried until crisp and pale golden. A popular festival sweet made for Diwali, Teej, and weddings across Chhattisgarh, also sold at market stalls. Light and flaky with a dry sweetness.