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Thursday, 15 January 2015

Golap Pitha



Ingredients:
Milk: to make dough
Flour: 1 cup
Salt: 1/4 teaspoon
Oil or ghee: for making dough and for frying
Sugar: 1 cup
Water:  1/2 cup
Suji: 2 tablespoon

Procedure:

Take a pan, boil milk in a medium heat. Make the dough of flour with milk and add salt to it. Mix the
Take the oil/ ghee in your hand and start to mix the dough with sugar and suji nicely. Mix it well to form fine dough. Then make 7-8 small balls from this dough.
Take one small ball on your chaki and Spread hint dry flour on it and make a thin ruti.
Take a 5 to 7 cm round cookie cutter otherwise any round shape sharp edge glass or cup and cut some small round shape part from your large ruti.
Put 3 small ruti on top of one another, take small part from the excess of ruti to put in the center of your flower. 
Then make your flower following the procedure as per the picture.





After making all the flowers fry those in deep oil till a nice golden brown color comes out. Take out the pitha on a paper towel to soak the excess oil.
Pour the water in a saucepan, add the sugar in it and make it a boil. Then keep it in a low heat to simmer. Make the shira or ras or sugar syrup.
Then put all the golap pithas in the sugar syrup which is simmering in the low heat. Turn over your pitha in the syrup for couple of time to cover it with sugar syrup. Then take them out on a plate.
Formulate rest of the pitha follow the similar procedure.
Keep your pitha to become cold to room temperature and dish up this finicky Golap Pitha.