Kitchen Tantra

Soan Papdi:

Son Papdi. Peechu Mittai. Thin and Flaky Soan Papdi.

Ingredients:

Besan/Bengal gram flour ½ cup
All purpose flour ½ cup
Ghee 1 cup
Sugar 1 cup
Cardamom seeds powder 1 spoon
Pale yellow food color 1 drop(optional)
Whole Milk 1 cup
Pistachios/Pista nuts few – thinly sliced
Almonds few – thinly sliced

Method:

Sift gram flour and all purpose flour separately.

In a dry pan, heat few spoons of ghee. Roast the gram flour till golden and well separated. All the ghee should get incorporated in it. Again sift this flour and set aside.

Repeat the same procedure for all purpose flour too. Heat ghee and roast the flour till golden color. Sift and mix to the above roasted flour. Mix both the roasted flour together.

Now in heavy bottomed bronze or iron vessel, heat sugar along with ½ cup of water. Add cardamom seeds powder and yellow food color to it.

When it comes to boiling stage. Filter it and again continue boiling. Further add milk and continue boiling. The sugar syrup should to come to thread like consistency.

In a wide tray, spray ghee. Now pour this thread like sugar syrup on it, carefully. Now add the flour and nuts to this syrup. Using a strong fork…..constantly mix them and beat them. Let all the flour, settle in the syrup. Gently pat them in the same tray, like a cake. Allow it to cool. Then using a knife (greased with ghee) cut them into desired shapes(generally squares)

Serve Warm or Cold as a Dessert.

Labels: Sweets