Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Goond ki Panjiri

Introduction
An age old recipe famous in north India and cherished as a dessert. This is a dish from Maa (my mother's) ki Rasoi :)
Recipe (Around 20 pieces of panjiri)


A) Ingredients
For Panjiri
100 gm: Coconut powder

100 gm: Dried/peeled melon seeds (Kharbooje ki giri)
100 gm: Eatable goond
250 gm: Sugar
250 gm: Ghee
1 glass: Water
B) Method
--> Heat ghee in a pan, and deep fry goond slowly one table spoon at time. The goond will bubble up as white balls. The substance is little sticky, and upon frying it will loose the stickiness. Fry all the goond, and keep aside. When it cools down crush it into smaller pieces.
--> Similarly fry the melon seeds in ghee and keep aside.

--> Mix coconut powder with the goond, and keep aside.
--> In a pan take 1 glass of water, and add the 250 gm sugar to it. Bring to boil, and stir well. Bring the liquid to a thick consistency where it doesnt flow free like a liquid.
--> In the meantime keep another dish ready with a little ghee applied to all its sides, so that when we pour the final mixture into this, the mixture doesnt stick to the walls.
-> In the hot sugar syrup, add the coconut powder and goond mixture. Add the fried melon seeds and mix it well.
--> Pour the hot mixture into the dish that we kept aside, and settle it into a even layer. Cut small pieces and serve when cold.