Ghevar Recipe
Ghevar Recipe
Cuisine: RajasthaniGhevar Recipe: Ghevar is a Rajasthani sweet made during festivals like Teej and Raksha Bandhan. It’s a disc-shaped sweet cake made from flour, milk, and soaked in sugar syrup.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Sugar,
1 cup Water
3 cups Plain Flour
1 cup Ghee
3-4 icecubes
4 cups water
1/2 cup Milk
1/4 tsp Yellow Colour
1 kg Ghee
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
1 tbsp Almonds chopped
1 tbsp Pistachios
1 tbsp Milk
1/2 tsp Saffron dissolved in milk
Silver foil
Directions
- Prepare syrup with 1 1/2 cups Sugar, 1 cup Water
- Sugar syrup should be of 1 thread consistency and keep aside.
- In a large bowl put ghee.
- Add milk, flour and 1 cup water.
- Mix together to make a smooth batter.
- Dissolve colour in some water and add to batter.
- Add more water as required.
- Batter should be of running consistency.
- Take an aluminium or steel cylindrical container.
- The height should be moderate.
- Fill half with ghee, Heat.
- When ghee is hot, take a 50 ml, glassful of batter.
- Pour in centre of ghee, slowly in one continuous threadlike stream.
- Allow foam to settle.
- Pour one more glassful in hole formed in centre.
- When foam settles again, loosen ghevar with an iron skewer inserted in hole.
- Place on a mesh to drain excessive oil.
- Keep sugar syrup in a wide flat bottomed container to fit in ghevar.
- Dip ghevar in it, and remove,
- Keep aside on mesh to drain excess syrup .
- Cool a little, top with silver foil.
- Splash a few drops of saffron milk,
- Sprinkle some chopped dryfruit and a few pinches of cardamom powder.
- Ghevar is ready to be served.
