Chandrakala Recipe

Chandrakala Recipe
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Chandrakala is a delicious recipe. Learn how to make Chandrakala by following this easy recipe.
Chandrakala Recipe
Preparation Time 30 Minutes
Cooking Time 10 Minutes
Difficulty Average
Recipe Type Veg.
Serves 10
Ingredients:
  • 1 cup Maida (refined flour)
  • 1/4 cup Rava (semolina)
  • 1/4 cup Ghee
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 50 gm Mava
  • 2 tbsp Powdered Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Almonds, Pistachios, Cashew (sliced)
  • 1/2 tsp Elaichi (powdered cardamom)
  • 1/3 cup Sugar
  • A few Kesar (saffron strands)
  • A little Kesari Color (saffron color)
  • For the garnish:
  • Silver Varq
  • 1/2 cup Almonds & Pistachios (sliced)
How to make Chandrakala:
  • In a bowl add maida, rava, ghee and mix it well.
  • Adding milk little by little into the mix, make it into soft dough. Keep it for 10 minutes.
  • Sieve mava and then roast it in a skillet for about 3-4 minutes. Allow it to cool.
  • Add powdered sugar and nuts into the mava mixture.
  • Make small balls (around 30) of it.
  • Take the dough and make small balls of it.
  • Roll it into small puris.
  • Stuff the mava mixture between two puris, sealing the edges.
  • Take a deep frying pan add enough ghee for frying.
  • Put the stuffed puris into hot ghee and cook it until the puris turn into golden brown in color.
  • Add ¼ cup water into sugar and heat it in a pan until you get one string consistency.
  • Put the puris into the sugar syrup.
  • Decorate it with silver varq and sliced nuts.

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