Chandrakala Recipe, Rakhi Recipes
Chandrakala Recipe
Ingredients:
Maida (refined flour)- 1 cup
Rava (semolina)- 1/4 cup
Ghee – 1/4 cup
Milk – for making the dough
Mava – 50 gms
Powdered sugar – 2 tblsp
Almonds – pistachios -chashew (sliced)- 1/4 cup
Elaichi (powdered cardamom)- 1/2 tsp
Sugar – 1/3 cup
Kesar (saffron strands)- a few
Kesari colour (saffron colour) -a little
For the garnish :
Silver varq
Almonds & pistachios
Rava (semolina)- 1/4 cup
Ghee – 1/4 cup
Milk – for making the dough
Mava – 50 gms
Powdered sugar – 2 tblsp
Almonds – pistachios -chashew (sliced)- 1/4 cup
Elaichi (powdered cardamom)- 1/2 tsp
Sugar – 1/3 cup
Kesar (saffron strands)- a few
Kesari colour (saffron colour) -a little
For the garnish :
Silver varq
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.