India, March 3 -- In spring, red semal flowers bloom around the Subz Burj monument on Mathura Road. In summer, golden-yellow amaltas flowers bloom along the entire length of Hailey Road. In early autumn, pale-green saptparni flowers dress up tree-lined portions of the India International Center. And every year for a month, parts of Old Delhi bloom with the khajlas.

Khajla is no flower. It is a delicacy that looks like a giant raj kachori. Some might even confuse it with the Kwality restaurant's bhathura. Khajla is so huge that a single person cannot finish the entire thing alone, definitely not in a single sitting.

Made of maida and ghee, the crispy crackly khajla surfaces during the ramzan when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. This year...