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Badam Puri
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Badam Puri

Badam Puri is a crispy and flaky sweet delicacy fromSouth India.
Course sweets
Cuisine karnataka
Keyword badam puri, badam puri recipe, festive time, gowri ganesha, gujarati sweets, south indian sweets

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cup maida
  • 2 tbsp semolina
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tbsp ghee
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • oil for frying
  • 15 almonds
  • for the sugar syrup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 4 cardamom powdered
  • a few strands saffron
  • Other ingredients:
  • little ghee
  • maida for dusting
  • cloves for decorating

Instructions

  • Soak the almonds in a cup of hot water for half an hour
  • Peel the skin and make it into a paste. You can use the same water for grinding.
  • Make the sugar syrup by boiling sugar in water. Add saffron strands and cardamom powder to it. Boil it for five minutes, we do not need a one string syrup here. Put it aside.
  • In a wide bowl, add maida and semolina. Put almond paste, sugar, baking soda, salt and ghee. Mix it well between fingers.
  • Add milk and make it to a firm dough.
  • Cover with a damp cloth and keep it aside for 15 minutes.
  • Take a ball of the dough, roll into a puri, smear some ghee, fold into half, again smear a little ghee and put the the third fold. Keep a clove on it.
  • Make a couple more with the remaining dough.
  • Heat oil in a pan.
  • Once the oil heat, slowly add them into the oil and deep fry till golden brown.
  • Remove and keep them aside.
  • After sometime, put them in the sugar syrup, turn the other side and remove in a plate.
  • Repeat for the rest of the dough.
  • Desiccated coconut with sugar, only castor sugar or just desiccated  coconut may be sprinkled over them.