Chandrakala

Chandrakala Recipe

A very much liked recipe of Chandrakla. It is a very popular dessert dish.

Ingredients:

1. Maida (refined flour)- 1 cup
2. Rava (semolina)- 1/4 cup
3. Ghee – 1/4 cup
4. Milk – for making the dough
5. Mava – 50 gms
6. Powdered sugar – 2 tblsp
7. Almonds – pistachios -chashew (sliced)- 1/4 cup
8. Elaichi (powdered cardamom)- 1/2 tsp
9. Sugar – 1/3 cup
10. Kesar (saffron strands)- a few
11. Kesari colour (saffron colour) -a little
12. For the garnish :
13. Silver varq
14. Almonds & pistachios

How to make Chandrakla :

• Make a soft dough of maida, rava, ghee and milk.
• Keep it aside for 10 minutes.
• Sieve mava and roast it for 3-4 minutes in a Kadai.
• Cool it.
• Add powdered sugar, cardamom, almonds, pistachios, cashews and mix well.
• Make 15 round pieces of it
• Divide the firstly prepared dough into 30 portions and roll them out into small puris.
• Stuff one piece of mava preparation between two such puris.
• Seal the edges by pressing them lightly and make any design at the edges.
• Fry these pieces in hot ghee till crisp and light brown in colour.
• Set them aside to cool.
• Make a sugar syrup of one-string consistency with one-fourth cup of water
  simultaneously adding the Kesar and Kesari colour.