Dugh khejur

Ingredients:

    1.1 cup all purpose flour

    2.1 cup Milk

    3.1 beaten egg

    4.2 table spoon of breadcrumbs

    5. Pinch of salt

    6. 1½ tablespoon Ghee/ oil

    7.Oil for frying

For Sugar Syrup:
   1. 1 and 1/2 cup sugar

   2. 2 cup water

  3.  1 piece cinnamon, about 2”

  4. 3 green cardamoms

Thick Milk:

   1.1 cup milk

   2.1/4 th cup of powder milk

Procedure:

   1.  Make thin sugar syrup with sugar, water, cinnamon and cardamom. Set aside.

   2.   Boil milk. Add a pinch of salt, and flour and mix. Form dough like dough for roti or chapatti.
         Transfer the dough to a bowl. Knead well.

   3.   Add the ghee or oil.When the dough cools a bit add the beaten egg and breadcrumbs. Knead              well. You may find it difficult to incorporate everything smoothly but keep kneading. You  may         need to add some extra breadcrumb to work comfortably with the dough.
        The kneading part is very important. The smoother and glossy dough you can make by                     kneading, the softer pitha you will get after soaking in the syrup.

  4.  Now make round balls and shape them .

  5.   Heat enough oil in a pot so pithas can be deep-fried. Now, the frying part is very important. If      not fried well, the pithas will remain hard, especially in the center, even in the sugar syrup. The oil            must be heated on medium low flame and it must not be too hot. Too hot oil will make the pithas        get   the outer color fast but leaving the center raw. The oil must not be cold either. Carefully,              heat oil on medium low heat and fry the pithas well until dark golden brown.
     Transfer the pithas into lukewarm sugar syrup and soak them for at least 4/5 hours. If soaked              well,  the pithas will be soft like laalmohon . If fried well the pithas will soak  almost  all the  syrup in not more than half and hour and will be very soft . But it’s better to soak them for   a   longer time .
     Now aftr the pithas soaked and absorbed good amount of sugar syrup add very thick milk over the   pithas on to the sugar syrup . If you think there are a large quantity of sygar syrup remained ,         then take out some of the sugar syrup then add the slightly warm milk .

6.   You can garnish with malai/ cream .