24/09/2017
Roth
5 cups flour
ΒΎ cup semi solid ghee
2 cups sugar
1 Β½ teaspoon coarsely ground cardamom
1 ripe banana smashed optional
+- 1 Β½ cups milk
Ghee for frying
Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl.
Rub in the ghee.
Stir in the sugar, cardamom and banana.
Make a soft dough with the milk.
Knead the dough for +-10 minutes
Heat the ghee to moderate hot in a karai.
Break dough into equal portions.
Roll into 1 cm thick discs.
Deep fry until golden brown.
Halwa
Sheerina Singh
250 ml / 1 heaped cup cake flour
200 ml sugar
375 ml hot milk
3 ml nutmeg grated
6 crushed cardamom
3/4 cup ghee
2 cloves
Make a batter with flour, sugar and milk.
Braise the cardamom and nutmeg in the ghee for a minute.
Add batter and stir constantly till it thickens into a smooth thick batter and it does not stick to the sides of the pan.
Cook on low heat for +- 10 minutes.
Puri
Sheerina Singh
3 cups cake flour
3 tablespoon unsalted butter or ghee
Hot milk +- 1 1/4 cup
Ghee for frying
Sift flour.
Add butter or ghee and rub in to resemble crumbs.
Add hot milk little at a time to get a workable dough.
Knead into a firm pliable dough.
Rest the dough for 10 minutes covered.
Divide the dough into equal parts.
Roll and fry in ghee.
Just turn once and it will puff up remove from ghee
Punjeri
Sheerina Singh
1 cup flour
4 tablespoon ghee room temperature
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
3 cloves
10 ml roasted sesame seeds (optional)
2,5 ml black pepper corn half teaspoon
Heat a thick base karai or pan.
Add the ghee once melted, add the 1 cup cake flour, cloves and black peppercorns.
Continue to stir mixture so that the flour doesnβt burn.
Once the flour has absorbed the ghee.
Add the sugar and continue to stir till you get a golden light brown colour.
Sprinkle roasted sesame seeds
Soji
Sheerina Singh
3/4 cup ghee or unsalted butter
250 ml tastee wheat or semolina the very fine one
500 ml milk warm
1 cup sugar
10 sultanas optional
Saffron optional or drop of yellow food colouring
5 ml cardamoms and nutmeg
Cinnamon sticks 4
Heat the ghee in a saucepan.
Add the cinnamon, cardamom and semolina.
Stir fry for +-5 minutes, until lightly coloured.
Add the milk and cover immediately.
When the milk starts to get absorbed add the sugar and sultanas.
Stir till the sides of the mixture come away from the pan.