Gur Para

Name: Gur Para
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: Many servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 bowl all purpose flour; 2 tb sp semolina; 2 tb sp cooking oil; 1/3 cup water; 3/4 bowl gur; 1 tsp Cooking Oil; 1/4 cup water

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

New Delhi

#Diwali2020 #Post3
#Gur para is a traditional Punjabi treat. This is made in festivals like holi, Diwali, Sankranti. Gur para has a long shelf life. It can be stored for 2 months in airtight container.

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

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Ingredients

45 minutes

Many servings

1 bowlall purpose flour
2 tbsp semolina
2 tbsp cooking oil
1/3 cupwater
For syrup
3/4 bowlgur
1 tspCooking Oil
1/4 cupwater

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Steps

45 minutes

1

Mix all purpose flour, semolina and oil and mix it to get consistency of bread crumbs. Add water and knead a soft dough. Cover with cloth and set aside for 19 minutes.
2

Now knead the dough again for 2 minutes and divide in 2 equal parts.
3

Take each part of dough and make a flat ball. Roll in 8" circles.
4

Cut each rolled dough into 1/2 "wide and 1" long pieces
5

Heat oil in a wok on medium flame. Fry the paras from both sides till light golden brown. Let it cool to room temperature.
6

Put gur and water in a pan and bring it to boil on medium flame. Keep stirring. Syrup should be of 1 thread consistency. Switch off the flame.
7

Put all the paras in syrup and mix well making sure that paras are coated with syrup. Keep stirring and separating them. After they are just warm transfer it in a greased plate.
8

Let it cool. Gur paras can be stored for weeks in airtight box.