Ghevar ?
Ghevar is a unique recipe which has its roots from Rajasthan, simply made with flour, milk and dryfruit.
Cuisine: Rajasthani
Ingredients
- 8 3 cups Plain Flour
- 8 1 cup Ghee
- 8 3-4 icecubes
- 8 4 cups water
- 8 1/2 cup Milk
- 8 1/4 tsp Yellow Colour
- 8 1 kg Ghee
Syrup:
- 8 1 1/2 cups Sugar
- 8 1 cup Water
- Topping:
- 8 1 tsp Cardamom Powder
- 8 1 tbsp Almonds chopped
- 8 1 tbsp Pistachios
- 8 1 tbsp Milk
- 8 1/2 tsp Saffron dissolved in milk
- 8 Silver foil
Method
- Prepare sugar syrup of 1 thread consistency and keep aside.
- In a large bowl put ghee.
- Add milk, flour and 1 cup water.
- n Mix together to make a smooth batter.
- Dissolve colour in some water and add to batter. Add more water as required.
- Batter should be of running consistency.
- Take an aluminium or steel cylindrical container.
- The height should be at least 12″. And diameter 5-6″.
- Fill half with ghee. Heat.
- When ghee is hot, take a 50 ml, glassful of batter.
- Pour in centre of ghee, slowly in one continuous threadlike stream.
- Allow foam to settle. Pour one more glassful in hole formed in centre.
- When foam settles again, loosen ghevar with an iron skewer inserted in hole.
- Place on a mesh to drain excessive oil.
- Keep sugar syrup in a wide flat bottomed container to fit in ghevar.
- Dip ghevar in it, and remove, keep aside on mesh to drain excess syrup .
- Cool a little, top with silver foil.
- Splash a few drops of saffron milk, sprinkle some chopped dryfruit and a few pinches of cardamom powder.
- Ghevar is ready to be served.
