Shakkar Pare
Shakkar Pare (Or sometimes called Shakkar Pare) are sweet fried crispy snacks. These are served during festivals like holi and social occasions like weddings and birthdays. This is a popular sweet recipe from North India.
If you make this recipe with Jaggery its called Gud Para. To try a salty version of this recipe try our Namak Pare recipe.
Ingredients
For dough
- Wheat flour – ½ cup
- Refined flour – ½ cup
- Clarified butter – ½ cup
- Sugar (powdered) – 5 tablespoons
- Fennel seeds (saunf) crushed – ½ teaspoon
- Water as required
For frying
- Oil for frying
Method
- In a big bowl add refined and wheat flour, saunf seeds, sugar and clarified butter and rub into flour. This will have a texture like breadcrumbs.
Add a little water at a time (don’t add more water at once. If you add more water at once then the flour will become sticky to handle) and knead into stiff dough.
- Cover with wet muslin cloth and set aside 5 – 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, divide the dough into two equal part.
- Lightly dust the rolling board with dry flour.
- Now roll out the dough into half centimeter thick.
- Cut each of the roll out dough into diamond shape or any other shape as per your choice.
- Heat sufficient oil in a deep frying pan.
- Slowly drop Shakkar Pare into the oil and fry them on medium heat till golden brown.
- Turn them carefully to cook the other side as well.
- Take out all fried Shakkar Pare onto an absorbent paper or tissue paper.
- Let the Shakkar Pare cool to room temperature.
- Store them in an air tight container.
Shakkarpare
Servings 4 -5
Ingredients
For dough
- Wheat flour – ½ cup
- Refined flour – ½ cup
- Clarified butter – ½ cup
- Sugar powdered – 5 tbsps.
- Fennel seeds saunf crushed – ½ tsp
- Water as required
For frying
- Oil for frying
Instructions
- In a big bowl add refined and wheat flour, saunf seeds, sugar and clarified butter and rub into flour. This will have a texture like breadcrumbs.
- Add a little water at a time (don’t add more water at once. If you add more water at once then the flour will become sticky to handle) and knead into stiff dough.
- Cover with wet muslin cloth and set aside 5 – 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, divide the dough into two equal part.
- Lightly dust the rolling board with dry flour.
- Now roll out the dough into half centimeter thick.
- Cut each of the roll out dough into diamond shape or any other shape as per your choice.
- Heat sufficient oil in a deep frying pan.
- Slowly drop Shakkar Pare into the oil and fry them on medium heat till golden brown.
- Turn them carefully to cook the other side as well.
- Take out all fried Shakkar Pare onto an absorbent paper or tissue paper.
- Let the Shakkar Pare cool to room temperature.
- Store them in an air tight container.