Bidisha's Corner

Saturday 20 September 2014

Jaggery dipped Sweet Shells / Gavallu / Misti Shamuk

Its is made of maida, given a shape of shell and dipped in Jaggery or Sugar syrup and allowed to cool and enjoy. It can be served as snack item and best followed with Coffee or Tea.

INGREDIENTS:
Maida / All purpose flour (1 cup).
Sugar (1 Tsp).
Salt to taste.
Ghee (15ml).
Oil for frying.
Jaggery (1/2 cup) and Water 1/2 cup).
Luke warm water.
Cardamom powder (1 Tsp).

PROCEDURE:
Heat ghee and add to maida in a big vessel, add salt and sugar to it, mix well and add luke warm water and knead to a soft dough. Make small, very small dumplings out of it. Now flatten them with finger tips and roll them over fork to give them shape of shells and similarly continue with the other dumpling and keep aside.
Heat enough oil for deep frying in a deep bottomed wok, now as oil is done smoke emits out of oil, simmer the gas mode and let it cool for a minute and add the shells to the pan for frying, slowly fry them till golden brown and strain out from oil.
Now make jaggery syrup, by heating jaggery and water and cardamom powder, bring it to boil and check its consistency, it should be like a syrup base, thicken it and add all the fried shells to it, stir and mix it well so that whole of jaggery syrup mixes up with the shells. Allow it to cool and once it comes to room temperature its ready to be enjoyed.

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