Baked Karanji – Dipawali special –Recipe

Every Indian festival is marked with distribution of sweets among the friends and relatives.  When you are planning a menu for coming festive season, here is one recipe special for the occasion of Diwali.  It is easy to prepare, delicious as well as healthy.

Ingredients:

For stuffing:

Split green gram skinless (Dhuli Moong dal), soaked overnight and then powdered in a mixture - 1.5 cups

Ghee 2 table spoons

Assorted nuts (almonds, cashew nuts, raisins) chopped – 4 tbsp.

Green Cardamom powder – 1tsp

Jawantri Jaifal -1/2 tsp

 For the cover:

Maida – 3 cups

Sooji – ½ cup

Ghee 6 table spoons

A generous pinch of Saffron

Khoya – ½ cup

Sugar -1 cup

Sooji -3 tbsp

 Recipe:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Sieve Maida and Sooji in a bowl.  Add 5 tbsps ghee and knead into stiff dough using ½ cup milk.  To make stuffing, heat ghee in a pan, Add assorted nuts and raisins and sauté for 5 minutes, till it turns brown.

 Add powdered green gram, mix and sauté for 10 minutes.  Add Elichi powder, Jawantri Jaifal, Khoya Sugar and Sooji.  Mix well and cook for 10 minutes.  Remove from heat, transfer into a bowl and set aside to cool.  Divide dough into equal portions shaped into small rounds.  Roll out to make small puris. Put a small portion of the prepared stuffing in the center.  Apply little milk on the edges and put into a ‘gunijhiya’ maker.  Similarly make all the Karanjis.

 -Brush baking tray with little ghee and sprinkle some Maida and place Karanji s on it. Brush them with little ghee and bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.  Turn the side after 15 minutes.

-Heat 3 tbsp milk in a small non-stick pan.  Add saffron and bring to boil.  Now remove from heat. Brush Karanjis with saffron milk just after you take out from oven.  Bake again for 15 minutes.

-A delicious sweet dish is ready.

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