Ghevar

=Ghevar=

Ghevar is a famous Rajasthani sweet traditionally associated with the Teej Festival. It is disc-shaped, and made from oil, flour and sugar syrup. There are many varieties of Ghevar, such as plain, mawa and malai ghevar.

Ingredients

* Plain Flour : 3 cups
* Solidified ghee : 1 cup
* Water : ½ cup
* Milk : ½ cup
* Ice cubes : 3-4 pcs
* Yellow food color : ¼ tsp
* Ghee : 1 cup (for deep frying)
* Kewra essence : 5-6 drops

yrup

* Sugar : 1 ½ cups
* Water : 1 cup

Topping

* Cardamom powder : 1 tsp
* Chopped almonds : 1 tbsp
* Pistachios : 1 tbsp
* Milk with saffron : 1 tbsp

Method of Preparation

# Add sugar to the boiled water to prepare a sugar syrup of 1 thread consistency.
# Take solidified ghee in a large bowl and rub it with ice cubes till it turns white.
# Add milk, flour and 1 cup water to the ghee. Mix together to make a smooth batter.
# Dissolve the food coloring in the water with kewra essence and to the batter. Add more water if required.
# Batter should be very smooth and thin.
# Take an aluminum cylinder or other heat-proof cylindrical container 12 inches high and 5-6 inches in diameter.
# Fill half the container with ghee and heat the container.
# When ghee is hot, fill a 50ml glass with batter and pour it slowly in the centre of the ghee.
# Allow foam to settle. Similarly, pour one more glassful in hole formed in the centre.
# When foam settles again, loosen the ghevar with an iron skewer inserted in the hole.
# Place ghevar on the wire mesh to drain excessive oil.
# Pour hot sugar syrup in the flat bottomed container.
# Put ghevar in the sugar syrup and drain excessive syrup.
# Let the ghevar cool and cover with silver foil.
# Splash a few drops of saffron milk over the ghevar and sprinkle it with some pistachios and almonds with cardamom powder.
# Ghevar is ready to serve.