Anarsa
Recipe detail
Ingredient list
- 4 cups rice
- 3½ cups sugar powder
- 3½ cups ghee
- 1 tbsp. poppy seeds
- 1/3 cup milk (approx)
Preparation
- Wash and soak rice in plenty of water.
- Change water everyday, repeating process for 3 days.
- Now, drain all water, and spread on a clean cloth for 3-4 hours. Grind to powder and sieve.
- Mix in sugar, press and keep aside for 2 hours, sprinkle milk little by little, kneading mixture into a soft pliable dough.
- On a clean plastic sheet, sprinkle a few poppy seeds.
- Take a ping pong sized ball of dough, press onto sprinkled seeds.
- Rotate and thin out dough with the hand, forming a 4" sized round.
- Heat 3-4 tbsp. ghee in a frying pan, let in one round, seeds side up.
- Shallow fry on low flame, till golden brown.
- Drain and keep aside. Repeat for remaining dough, add more ghee as required.
- Cool very well for 5-6 hours before storing in airtight containers.