Panjiri

Panjiri is a Punjabi dish, made from whole wheat flour fried in sugar and ghee, heavily laced with dried fruits and herbal gums. It is usually eaten in the winters to ward off cold. Panjiri is normally given to nursing mothers. It is considered "Hot Food" to help with the production of breast milk.

Ingredients

* Atta (whole wheat flour)
* Ghee
* Chaar magaz
* Sugar
* Almond
*gond

Method to cook

Fry the gond in the ghee, over high heat briefly then over a reduced heat, till it is cooked through (it puffs up, and when cooked through, you can cut through it).Remove with a slotted spoon, and grind in a blender, very fine. In the same ghee, fry the makhana till brown, remove and fry almonds and then the magaz. Roast the atta and ajwain in the remaindered ghee till a light brown (over low heat). Remove from heat, mix in the almonds, magaz, sonth, makahana and gond and leave to cool. When cool, mix in the sugar and serve or store.

ee also

*Punjabi cuisine
*Indian cuisine

References

* [http://www.greatindianrecipes.com/great-indian-recipe-1008.html Panjiri]

External links

* [http://www.ncbchildbirth.com/breast_feeding.htm Breast Feeding]