Chandrakala

INGREDIENTS: Makes around 20 to 25

FOR KHOA: (Stuffing)

1. Milk - 1.5 liters preferably milk with fat.
2. Sugar - 2 cups - around 250g sugar or even more if needed
3. Elachi powder 
4. Cashews and almonds - 10 numbers each

FOR SUGAR SYRUP: 

1. Sugar - around 1 cup 
2. Water - as needed

FOR OUTER LAYER: 

1. Maida(All purpose flour) - 1.5 cups
2. A pinch of salt
3. A pinch of baking soda
4. Ghee - 4 tea spoons
5. Water - as needed

METHOD: 

KHOA : 

• Take a thick bottom vessel and add the 1.5 liters milk. Add the sugar and keep stirring until it thickens .
• After it thickens, keep the stove in medium flame and stir until it becomes light brown khoa.
• This usually takes 1 to 1.5 hours. You can also get unsweetened khoa and add the sugar after grinding it .
• Once the khoa is ready add the elachi powder.Roast the cashews and almonds and cut them into fine pieces.Add this to the khoa, mix well and keep aside. Make cylindrical shape khoa and keep it ready to stuff inside the outer layer.
• You can taste the khoa and see if the sugar is sufficient.Else if needed add powdered sugar accordingly. 

SUGAR SYRUP:

• Add the sugar and water to just cover the sugar.That is the usual way i do.Allow the mixture to boil until it reaches just one string consistency. 
• The mixture will be slightly thick and not too thin. 

OUTER LAYER DOUGH: 

• Mix all the ingredients to the consistency of poori/chapati dough.
• After mixing the dough well , apply one or 2 spoons of ghee so that the dough is very soft.
• Leave it aside for 1 to 2 hours.

FRYING:

• Make chapatis/pooris out of the dough using ghee or oil. 
• Place one or 2 spoons of khoa in the center and and cover is with the other half . This should resemble half moon shape. Join the sides and give a slight twist and seal the cover.Remove the remaining pinch of dough and use it for subsequent pooris.
• Take a kadai and pour cooking oil and allow it to heat. 
• Fry the moon shaped sweet to golden brown.
• After removing from oil, put it in the sugar syrup for 15 mins.
• Remove it from the syrup after 15 mins and its ready to serve:)
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