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About Recipe

Mouthwatering Indian sweet, perfect for Festive season!!!

Ingredients

1 cup Bengal gram flour

3/4 cup 2% milk or you can use full milk

1 cup sugar

1 cup water

1 tablespoon melted ghee (clarified butter)

1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder (made from green cardamoms

10 strands saffron (optional but highly recommended)

1/4 cup finely chopped almonds, pistachios

1 tablespoon milk

Ghee for deep frying (you could use canola oil but ghee gives better and tastier results)

Cooking Procedure

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n  nn n  n n 1.  In Mixing bowl, mix gram flour, milk and ghee and whisk thoroughly until it becomes lump free. You can use hand blender to mix it. n n 2.    In medium wide pot put 1 cup of water and sugar and boil. As it boils scum will rise to the top. Skim this off with a spatula. The sugar syrup must be boiled till it reaches a one-thread consistency. n n 3.    Add few drops of lemon juice to avoid crystallization of sugar syrup. n n 4.    Once the syrup has reached the one-thread consistency, remove from the fire immediately, add the cardamom powder, stir and keep the syrup warm at very low heat.n n 5.     Add saffron strand into syrup and mix it well.n n 6.    Add a little milk if batter is bit thick and make the batter very smooth.n n 7.     in 1 tablespoon milk add few strands of saffron and mix it until bright orangey yellow color developed. Strain milk and add in batter and mix well to get nice yellow color batter. n n 8.    Now heat the ghee on a medium flame till hot. Reduce flame a little.n n 9.    Hold the sieve about 4 inches above the hot ghee and fill a ladle with the batter. Pour the batter into the sieve. Now use another spoon to gently press the batter through the sieve and into the ghee. It will fall like tiny drops/ beads - Boondi - into the oil! n n 10.  Now fry the Boondi till they are a very pale golden colour. When done, drain, remove and put into a separate bowl. The fried Boondi should be cooked but not crispy.n n 11.  Repeat till all the batter is used up.n n 12.Once all your Boondi is ready, add the finely chopped dried fruits, pour the warm syrup over all the Boondi and keep aside for 10 minutes. The Boondi will soak up the sugar syrup and soften.n n 13. Serve hot with garnishing of dry fruitsn n 14. To give more taste add warm melted ghee on top of boondi while serving.nnn  nn  n

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