Semolina-Amaranth Flour Palm Jaggery Ghee bars

Name: Semolina-Amaranth Flour Palm Jaggery Ghee bars
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: For bars Semolina Amaranth-; 1 1/2 cups fine semolina; 1/2 cup Amaranth flour; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup palm jaggery, liquid or grated; 1 cup hot milk (for making buttermilk); 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar; 1/2 cup hot milk (for soaking saffron); 4 tablespoons ghee/soft butter/oil; 10-12 saffron strands; 4-6 cardamom pods; 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 3 tablespoons Cashewnuts; 3 tablespoons Pistachios; 3 tablespoons Almonds; For Toppings-; 2 tablespoons Almonds; 2 tablespoons Pistachios; 2 tablespoons Cashewnuts

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Ingredients

30-40 minutes

10 servings

Forbars Semolina Amaranth-
1 1/2 cupsfine semolina
1/2 cupAmaranth flour
1/4 teaspoonsalt
1/2 cuppalm jaggery, liquid or grated
1 cuphot milk (for making buttermilk)
2 tablespoonsapple cider vinegar
1/2 cuphot milk (for soaking saffron)
4 tablespoonsghee/soft butter/oil
10-12saffron strands
4-6cardamom pods
1 1/2 teaspoonsBaking soda
1/2 teaspoonbaking powder
3 tablespoonsCashewnuts
3 tablespoonsPistachios
3 tablespoonsAlmonds
ForToppings-
2 tablespoonsAlmonds
2 tablespoonsPistachios
2 tablespoonsCashewnuts

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Steps

30-40 minutes

1

In 1 cup of hot milk add vinegar and mix. Leave for some time for milk to curdle. Meantime prepare other ingredients.
2

Grease a 8 by 10 inch pan and coat it with wheat flour. Crush cardamom pods and remove the peel. Chop all the nuts and set aside.
3

In 1/2 cup of hot milk add saffron strands and leave for 10 minutes for soaking.
4

In a mixer pot add semolina, Amaranth flour and salt. Blend well, this will make sure everything mix well and semolina becomes fine.
5

To the same mixer jar add curdled milk and palm jaggery (I had in liquid form you can grate and use same quantity). Blend well.
6

Mix well.
7

Add the saffron milk and blend also.
8

Add ghee.
9

Add crushed cardamom and blend.
10

Set this mixture aside for 30 minutes, for semolina to swell and absorb the liquids.
11

15 minutes before mixing the leaveners in the mixture, preheat you oven at 170°C.
12

Remove in a bowl add baking powder and soda, chopped nuts and mix lightly, without beating or over mixing
13

Spread batter evenly in the pan. Bake in preheated oven for about 30-40 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.
14

Cool the bake and invert over a wire rack.
15

Slice and serve.