Saturday, November 14, 2015

Bringing back childhood memories.

This post is dedicated to my Bapama (paternal grandmother).

She filled my childhood with these soft, crispy, flaky, melt in the mouth, sweet pastry... lovingly called as "Phenori".

You have to eat one & tell me if you can stop at that or you need one more!:0).

 Phenori / Chiroti-


Servings- makes 12 phenoris of medium size            Cooking time-  1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients-
                     1 cup/ 1 pav of all purpose flour/ maida.
                     1/2 cup of vanaspathi ghee.
                     1 cup of sugar.
                     1 tbsp of ghee/ clarified butter.
                     2 tsp elaichi/ cardamom powder.
                     Oil for deep frying.
                     

Procedure-

  • Measure 1 cup of all purpose flour/ maida. Add 1 tbsp of ghee & rub with your fingers to get a bread crumble consistency. Add water as required & make a dough as for puris.
  • Make small portions of the dough & roll out small puris. Keep one beneath the other with a gap of 1 cm each; upto 5 to 6 puris.
  • Keep applying vanaspathi ghee on the rolled out side of each puri before placing the other on it. Roll it as you would roll a traditional indian mattress.
  • Cut into equal portions & roll out the cut pieces into small puris again.
  • Deep fry in hot oil & place them aside.
  • Now start making the sugar syrup using 1 cup of sugar & 1/4 cup of water. The sugar syrup should reach 1 to 2 strand consistency. Add elaichi/cardamom powder.
  • Once the phenoris are completely cooled; dip them one by one in hot sugar syrup & arrange on a plate. 
  • Delicious sweet phenoris are ready to relish.

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