Recipe for Besan-e-sheera
Ingredients
- Gram flour-150 g(1 cup)
- Almonds-8 to 10
- Chopped dry apricot-3
- Desiccated coconut-2 tsp
- Sugar- 1/2 cup
- Water-2 cup
- Cardamom powder-1 tsp
- Clarified butter(ghee) or unsalted butter-3 tbsp
Cooking Directions
Boil water with sugar and cardamom powder for 5 minutes to make a solution and keep aside.
Sieve gram flour and keep aside. Heat ghee or butter in a pan(on low flame) and add almonds and chopped apricots,fry for 1 minute and drain on paper towel.
Now add gram flour to that ghee or butter and roast it on low flame with continuous stirring for 5-10 minutes till it becomes golden in color.
Add sugar solution in roasted gram flour and let it boil for 2 minutes till water mix with gram flour .
Remove from heat and garnish with fried almonds and apricots.Sprinkle desiccated coconut over the top.
Serve hot with milk
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