Chandrakala Recipe–How to make Chandrakala

      Chandrakala is a Milk based Sweet.  It's my hubby favourite sweet, he simply love this one. I wanted to try making this sweet for long time but never did, until one day finally I decide to make it.  He really liked it very much as chandrakala tasted awesome ..everything got over very fast :)
       It is very easy to prepare and taste is so delicious.To prepare this sweet we need Khova/Khoya for stuffing.Here i tried this sweet with homemade khova/khoya.You can try this with Store bought one also.

Ingredients For Khova:

• 1 litre Milk
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup Almonds - pistachios -cashew (sliced)(optional)
• 1/2 tsp cardamom powder

Method:

• Heat the milk in a heavy bottomed pan.Bring it to boil.Once it starts boiling, then lower the heat - something in the middle of low-med.
• Stir it once every 10 min to make sure that the milk does not stick to the bottom.

• Add the Cardamom Powder and sugar.The milk is about an hour and half or so, slowly starts reducing in volume and turns into sandalwood yellow colour.
• After 1 hours or so, it thickens and this is a point when it becomes mandatory that attention is given and stirring is must on a continuous basis. Otherwise it will stick to the bottom.At final stage it will be like thick paste.Remove it from the stove ,Transfer it into a serving bowl and cool it for sometime.Khova is ready for stuffing.

          You can mix the grated Pistachio/almonds in Khova for crunchy taste.

Ingredients For Chandrakala:

• 2 cups Maida/plain flour
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 2-3 tbsp water/as needed to knead the flour
• a pinch Salt
• Oil/Ghee for deep frying
• 1 cup sugar (for syrup)
• Few Kesar /pistachios
• Khoya for stuffing

Method:

• Add the maida flour and salt in a large mixing bowl.Add ghee and start kneading the dough.Add water little by little and knead them again till the dough become soft.Cover and keep aside.

• Roll each dough pieces like small poories.Place stuffing in the center of the poori and close it.

• Fold in the edges.Repeat this step  with remaining dough.

• Prepare the sugar syrup by boiling sugar and water into thick consistence.Fry all chandrakala one by one in a ghee/oil at moderate temperature, till it turns golden.

• Take it out and soak the chandrakala immediately in prepared sugar syrup for 10 minutes and then arrange it in a tray.

      Garnish it with grated pistachios/saffron strands.

     And this is how the stuffing looks ..:)...just to tempt you guys ;)

Have a nice Day!

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