CHAKKA APPAM RECIPE

Chandrakala Recipe Preparation Time 30 Minutes Cooking Time 10 Minutes Difficulty Average Recipe Type Veg. Serves Serves 10 Ingredients: • 1 cup Maida (refined flour) • 1/4 cup Rava (semolina) • 1/4 cup Ghee • 1 cup Milk • 50 gm Mava • 2 tbsp Powdered Sugar • 1/4 cup Almonds, Pistachios, Cashew (sliced) • 1/2 tsp Elaichi (powdered cardamom) • 1/3 cup Sugar • A few Kesar (saffron strands) • A little Kesari Color (saffron color) • For the garnish: • Silver Varq • 1/2 cup Almonds & Pistachios (sliced)  How to make Chandrakala: • In a bowl add maida, rava, ghee and mix it well. • Adding milk little by little into the mix, make it into soft dough. Keep it for 10 minutes. • Sieve mava and then roast it in a skillet for about 3-4 minutes. Allow it to cool. • Add powdered sugar and nuts into the mava mixture. • Make small balls (around 30) of it. • Take the dough and make small balls of it. • Roll it into small puris. • Stuff the mava mixture between two puris, sealing the edges. • Take a deep frying pan add enough ghee for frying. • Put the stuffed puris into hot ghee and cook it until the puris turn into golden brown in color. • Add ¼ cup water into sugar and heat it in a pan until you get one string consistency. • Put the puris into the sugar syrup. • Decorate it with silver varq and sliced nuts.