Shakkarpare
This sweet food is incredibly famous in Punjab (India). Shakkarpare is an easy to form recipe, which doesn’t require abundant ingredients.
RECIPE
Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
11/2 cup maida (plain flour)
1/3 cup sugar
Water
1 tsp Saunf
1/3 cup ghee
Ghee to deep fry
Method:
Mix all the ingredients except sugar. Blend well. Add very little amount of water, while mixing the ingredients, and then knead it into a soft dough.
Divide the dough into equal elements and roll out into thick chappatis, while not using any dry flour.
Cut the rolled out chappatis with a cookie cutter or knife, into little diamond shapes.
Lift the cut chapattis with spatula and keep them aside on a dry cloth, for concerning one hour.
In the meantime, make a sugar syrup by heating the sugar with water over medium flame. don't caramelize the sugar. Once the syrup becomes thick, take away it from the flame and set it aside.
Deep fry the cut chapattis in hot ghee, over slow flame, till lightweight golden brown.
Drain the ghee well and then dip the fried treat into the already prepared sugar syrup.
After you have got prepared the shakkarpare, set them aside to cool down and then store them in an air tight container.