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Ghevar
Ingredients:
- Plain flour- 225 gms
- Water- 3 cups
- Arrowroot- 1 tbs
- Melted ghee- ¼ cup
- Milk- ¼ cup
- Food color(yellow)- 1 pinch
- Required ghee for deep frying
- Chopped almonds and pistachios- 1 tbsp
- Kewda essence- 2-3 drops(optional)
For syrup:
- Water- 1 cup
- Sugar- 1¼ cup
Method:
For Syrup:
- pour water in a bowl and add sugar.
- stir to mixture on low heat and simmer until mixture gain 1 thread consistency.
- Remove from heat and keep aside.
For Ghevar:
- First of all take melted ghee(should not be cool), flour and arrowroot in a large bowl.
- Add some of water and milk to make a paste, remember ghee and oil should not separate.
- Add kewda essence and food color in some water in to batter.
- Add more water to make thin coating consistency.
- Take an aluminum or steel cylindrical container(height 12″)with ghee and heat it.
- Pour a spoonful(tbsp) of batter into the container in a thin stream.
- Pour the stream in center of ghee.
- After the settlement of the foam add another spoonful of batter in center. You can repeat it 4-5 times and each time pour batter in to hole.
- When it fry perfectly, lift gently and place on a tissue paper.
- Immerse ghever in hot sugar syrup and drain excess syrup.
- You can use same process to remaining batter.
- Now top up with almonds and pistachios and serve.





By Chanchal
16-Sep-2010
