08/08/2024
Sweet shankarpali are crisp, flaky, melt in the mouth fried and baked biscuits. Shankarpali is a popular festive snack from Maharashtra.
- 1.5 cups wheat flour
- ⅓ cup rava roasted rava
- ½ cup jaggery, add as required
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 to 4 tablespoons milk or add as required
- 2 tablespoon melted ghee or oil
- oil as required for deep frying
First sieve the flour with salt.
Then sieve the jaggery powder.
Melt some ghee or warm the oil in a small pan.
Add the melted ghee or warm oil to the flour-semolina-sugar mixture. First mix with a spoon.
Then with your fingers mix and make a breadcrumb like consistency.
When gathered together, the whole mixture should be able to hold itself together.
Warm the milk. Then add 1 tablespoon of the warm milk in intervals and knead to a firm tight dough.
Keep aside covered for 20 to 30 minutes for the dough to rest.
Heat oil for deep frying in a kadai or pan.
Divide the dough into two or three equal parts and roll each into a neat ball. Keep covered with a kitchen napkin so that the dough does not dry out.
Roll this ball into a disc having 5 to 7 mm thickness. Cut diamond or square shaped slices from the rolled dough.
Gently drop 6 to 8 of these rolled shankarpali pieces into the kadai or pan.
Store them in an airtight container.