Ghevar

Ghevar is a special rajasthani sweet dish. Honestly I was introduced to it by my in laws :) Well since it was something sweet and i have the sweetest tooth in the whole wide world, I obviously had to totally love it...

So since its been a while i visited India, i couldn't take it anymore and i had to make it at home. So here is what you'll need to savour this delicacy...

The Stuff:

1/4th cup Ghee
1 Cup Maida - all purpose flour
5-6 cubes of Ice
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/4th cup milk
chilled water about 2 cups
regular room temprature water approx 2 cups
2 cups of Sugar
2 cups Ghee - for the deep frying

Lets get going -

Start by pouring the 1/4th cup of ghee in a large dish, add the ice cubes and whip it for about 5-7 mins with your hand. This would make the ghee turn into to absolutely soft cream. Check the texture with your hands, there should not be any granules, let it be totally soft.To your surprise the ice cubes will be absolutely neat and easy to seperate. Remove them.
Now add the flour little by little and keep mixing. Add the milk as you mix the maida. Now mix it well till the batter is smooth. Add the chilled water and the regular water slowly. Keep mixing it regularly, till the batter is liquid enough to be in pouring consistency.

Once you are sure of the consistency of the batter, add the lemon juice. Set this batter aside for a 2-3 mins while you heat up the Ghee. For Ghevars we need absolutely hot ghee, once the ghee is ready, pour in the batter one table spoon full at a time. Now wait, let the froth on top of the ghee settle, then make some space with a spoon in the center. Now pour another table spoon full.

Repeat the pouring, waiting for the froth to settle, making space in the center and then pour again - till you feel the size of your ghevar is appropriate. It will typically take about 7-10 mins per ghevar on the gas.

Once the ghevar is ready pick it up from the center whole of the ghevar with the help of  a spoon and place it on a bowl that has been set on a large plate. This would allow the extra ghee to come out in the plate.

Once you are done making all your ghevars, let them drain out the extra ghee, while you make the sugar syrup [chashni].

To make the sugar syrup take the 2 cups of sugar and pour them in a thick bottomed pan, add one cup of water to it. Let it come to boil then cook for about 7-10 mins. Once done, pour this with a spoon on your ghevars - evenly and generously. This would make them sweet. Give it some time for the chashni to settle in to the ghevars. Garnish them with pistachios, cashews & almonds - finely chopped.

And now all that's left is to dig in... :) Enjoy...!! Below is the pic of the ghevars i made today... :)