Indian Cooking Recipe: Bhakra
The following are the instructions on how to cook delicious Indian food: Bhakra
Ingredients:
a. tablespoon ghee (should be cool)
2. 1/2 cup sugar
a. eggs
b. 1cup semolina (ravo)
3. 2/3 cup all purpose flour
4. 1/2 cup wheat flour
a. teaspoon vanilla essence
5. 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
a. cardamoms peeled and crushed
6. 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg powder
a. tablespoon almonds, blanched, peeled and finely chopped
b. desert spoon curd
7. Vegetable oil or ghee for frying
Method of Preparation:
Sift separately semolina, all purpose flour and wheat flour.
Put ghee and sugar in a deep pan and stir briskly with the hand, for 5 minutes, Add eggs, one by one and continue stirring briskly by hand till sugar has melted.
Add semolina to mixture and blend well.
Add all purpose flour and continue mixing.
Add vanilla essence to mixture and mix all ingredients well.
Mix baking powder, cardamom, nutmeg and almonds to wheat flour and blend well. Add to mixture and mix till all ingredients are well blended.
Add curd and make into soft, sticky dough. Cover and keep for 3 to 4 hours.
Add about 1 tablespoon more to the dough so that it is not too sticky.
Sprinkle a little wheat flour onto a pastry board or table top and roll out the dough into a large round shape 1/2 centimeter thick.
Cut as many rounds of 6 centimeters as possible. Roll leftover dough into a big round again and once more cut small rounds from it.
Pour oil or ghee in a frying pan to a depth of 5 centimeters and heat. Deep fry bhakras on medium fire till golden brown.
Serve at once or cool and store in an air tight container.
