This is a sweet commonly made by South Indians either to celebrate occasions or to send to their loved ones.
Ingredients:
Besan/ gram flour -1 glass
pure ghee – 2 glass
white sugar-2 glass
round steel plate
Before switching on the gas, please keep everything ready – 1 glass of flour in a kadai/ pan, 2 glass of sugar in a vessel for chashni/ sugar syrup, 2 glass of ghee in a kadai/ pan and one ghee coated steel plate for pouring the final mixture in the end.
Directions:
- First dry roast the besan a little. The colour should not get dark. Just when you get the good smell, remove it from the gas stove and keep it aside. Be careful not to over roast.
- Take the measured sugar and add water up till the level of sugar. We have to make one string sugar syrup. This is the most important step. Keep stirring the sugar syrup and as you see 1 string, remove from the gas stove.
- When you are readying the sugar syrup, keep the measured ghee in the smallest burner in simmer.
Now keep the roasted flour pan on the stove and add 2 ladles of hot ghee (which is in the smallest burner. Don’t switch it off) to this flour and mix it well.
Pour the sugar syrup into the ghee mixed flour mixture. Stir it and slowly add the hot ghee ladle by ladle and continue till you pour all the ghee.
Keep stirring and when the mixture begins to leave the sides, pour it into the ghee coated steel plate.
Wait for 20-30 seconds and cut it into pieces when it is still hot and leave it for 5 minutes.
- You will be able to remove pieces from the sides for tasting.
- Wait for 15 minutes and you can remove all the pieces and put in a container. Make sure you don’t close the lid when hot or warm.
By Bhuvana Bhaskar
Simple home cooking 