Surati Ghari
Gujarati, Surati Cuisine: Mithais, Dessert, Sweet
Surati Ghari is a round shape sweet dish from Surat, Gujarat, India. Available in many varieties and flavours such as pistachio, almond-elaichi and mawa (here on this page). Used to consume on Chandni Padwa / Sharad Purnima festival, the last full moon day in the Hindu calendar.
Cooking Time: 45 Minutes
Pre-Preparation Time: Not Needed
Level Of Cooking: Medium
Serving: 10-12 pieces
How To Cook:
Step 1: Roast the Milk solids in ghee by stirring on a low flame till the ghee is separated from it. Keep it aside and allow it to cool.
Step 2: Now roast 1 tablespoon gram flour in 1 tablespoon ghee on a low flame till golden brown. Keep it aside and allow it to cool.
Step 3: Make small pieces of almonds, cashew and pistachio. Grind the cardamom seeds into fine powder.
Step 4: When the milk solid mixture is cooled down, add powdered sugar, roasted gram flour, pieces of dry fruit and cardamom powder to it.
Step 5: Mix all the ingredients well and then roll small balls from it and
...keep them aside.
Step 6: Add 5-6 tablespoon ghee to all purpose flour and mix it well. Make a dough out of it with the help of adding milk intermittently.
Step 7: Cover the dough with a piece of cloth to save it from getting dry.
Step 8: Heat a pan with 300gm ghee on a low flame. Roll Puris out of the all-purpose flour dough, having diameter of 4-5 inch. Stuff it with the balls of milk solid mixture. Close the edges of puri with the help of milk.
Step 9: Fry the Stuffed ghari in ghee. Keep on adding ghee from the pan to it to grease it from all the sides. Repeat the process and fry all the gharis. Keep it aside to cool down.
Step 10: Heat 100gm ghee on a high flame. Collect ice-cubes in a big vessel and allow the heated ghee to cool down little bit by keeping it over the ice cubes. When it cools down little bit dip the fried gharis in it and keep them aside.
Step 11: Refrigerate the gharis. Enjoy it as a sweet dish/dessert whenever you want.
Kaywords: Surati Ghari, Ghari, Chandni Padwa, Sharad Purnima
For Queen's Kitchen, Recipe by: Dr. Ranna Pandya, Ishita Pandya
For Queen's KitchenRecipe by: Dr. Ranna Pandya, Ishita Pandya
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