Sweet Pumpkin Cookie (Gharga)

Servings : 2 persons

Time : 30 minutes

Ingredients :

Red/Yellow pumpkin grated 1 cup
jaggery 1 cup
Rice flour 1/2 cup
semolina 1/2 cup
wheat flour 1/4 cup
clarified butter 1/2 teaspoon

Stepwise Instructions :

Mix clarified butter, grated pumpkin, jaggery and cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Covering the mixture with a lid helps cooking it fast. Turn off the heat. While still hot, add the rice flour, semolina and wheat flour and mix thoroughly. It will form a dough. After 30 minutes split the dough into small balls. Apply thin layer of vegetable/canola oil to a plastic paper and place the ball on it. Then press each ball with hand into a circular shape. Deep fry these cookies on medium heat till brown color.

Cookies taste better when eaten with clarified butter.

Sweet Semolina

Servings : 2 persons

Time : 15 minutes

Ingredients :

Semolina 1 cup
clarified butter 6 spoons
sugar 1 cup
little bit of jaggery
2 cup water


Stepwise Instructions :


Mix semolina and clarified butter into pan and saute on medium heat with continuous stirring untill brown. Add water and stir with large spoon. Cover it with lid for 2 minutes. After two minutes take the lid off and add sugar and jaggery and mix it well. Again cover with lid for 2 minutes and then mix it well.Use the same cup for measuring semolina, water and sugar. Alternatively use half sugar and half jaggery mixture.

serve with mango pickle and poha papad.