Padar Peni

It is a tasty sweet dish made of all purpose flour,sugar. It has very minimal ingredients, but the dish is made in a very detailed manner. There are many variations of padar peni available on the net. Below is my version .

Cooking Time : 45 minutes
Serves - 33 pieces

INGREDIENTS:
All purpose flour/maida - 500 gms(If you measure in a 240 ml cup, you will get 2.5 cups)
Sugar - 300 gms
Food colour -a pinch( I used sunset orange color)
Ghee - 3 tablespoon
Rice flour - 1 tablespoon
Baking soda - 1/2 teaspoon
Cardamom powder - As required.

METHOD:
1. Prepare all ingredients and set ready.

2. In a bowl, take all purpose flour. Add a pinch of salt, food color and mix well. Then add water little by little and knead to form a dough as that of rotti dough. If the dough is  too sticky, add some oil, so that it doesn't stick with your hands.

3. Keep aside the dough covered. Now it is time to make the "padar" paste. Take a bowl and add 3 tablespoon ghee , 1 table spoon rice flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda  and mix well without any lumps.

4. Now take the dough and make orange sized balls, as big as shown in below pic . It comes around 4 big pieces.

5. Take a ball of dough and roll it flat. Do not make it too thin. Keep this rotti aside.

6. Similar way make rotti of all the dough balls. (Note: Do not stack all rotti one above the other . All purpose flour is very soft and sticky.. So if you place one above other , they will stick each other. So keep each rotti separately) . Now take one rotti and apply the "padar" paste

7. Place another rotti above it. Apply the "padar" paste again and place the next rotti . Place all rotti one above other this way.

8. Now roll it all together as shown below.

9. Cut them in to equal parts.

10. Now take the first piece. The cut portion should come in the top. Press it and it will look like a flower with petals.

11. Repeat this process for all the pieces. 

12. Keep those dough balls aside. It is time to make sugar syrup. In a vessel, add 300 gms of sugar and add 150 ml water and place it on the stove.

13.Allow the sugar syrup to come to boil.Keep stirring constantly with a wooden spatula. In about approximately 8 minutes, the sugar syrup gets sticky. When you touch the spatula, you can feel that syrup is sticky. When you pour it in a plate which has water, the syrup should not get dissolved immediately. Please check the below video for the syrup consistency.

(If you are unable to watch the video, please click here -> https://goo.gl/photos/efmsa8Ki2sS8T48Q8 )

14. Once syrup is ready. Switch off the gas. Now take  one dough ball which you have kept ready. Roll them flat  to the size as shown below. As we have padar paste inside, do not roll them thin. Then the paste would starts to ooze out. 

15. Flip the top side to the bottom and you get a semi circle.

16. Flip the left side to the right and you get a traingular shape . Now using the chapati roller, flatten it little bit. Then using fork, prickle all over it. It helps the padar peni to absorb the sugar syrup.

17. Deep fry them in oil and then immediately put  the padar peni in the sugar syrup using a tong. Allow it to stay in the sugar syrup for 2 min approximately. Do not allow the padar peni to stay for long. It will get soggy. Remove and place it on a plate.

18. You get about 6 nos. of  big padar peni as shown below. 

19. Cut them in to pieces. You will get about 33 pieces.

20. Padar peni is ready.. Keep it outside for 2 to 3 hours to cool down. The sugar syrup gets thicken. Then refrigerate it.