Pumpkin Shakkarpara

Name: Pumpkin Shakkarpara
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 200 gms Wheat Flour; 100 gms Yellow pumpkin; 100 gms Sugar; to taste Table salt; as required Oil; as required Water; 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder; 4 4 Cherries; 1 tsp Tutti fruitti; 1 tsp coloured sprinklers

Jayasakthi's Kitchen @cook_16049128

Vellore, Tamil Nadu

#holisweets
Yellow pumpkin juice added with flour for natural bright yellow colour

Jayasakthi's Kitchen @cook_16049128

Vellore, Tamil Nadu

#holisweets
Yellow pumpkin juice added with flour for natural bright yellow colour

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Ingredients

90minutes

3 servings

200 gmsWheat Flour
100 gmsYellow pumpkin
100 gmsSugar
to tasteTable salt
as requiredOil
as requiredWater
1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
44 Cherries
1 tsp Tutti fruitti
1 tspcoloured sprinklers

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Steps

90minutes

1

Cook yellow pumpkin with little water for 5 minutes, cool it and grind in a mixie. Keep the pumpkin puree in a plate
2

Knead the wheat flour with pumpkin puree, 2 spoons oil and salt. Add water if necessary.
3

Apply 2 spoons oil on the dough and cover it for 1 hour with a wet cloth
4

After 1 hour knead the dough well and prepare balls. Cover the balls with the wet cloth.
5

Take one ball, roll it into big circle and cut it into rectangular shape.
6

Draw parallel lines on the rectangle with a rolling wheel without touching the edges
7

Apply water on 4 edges of the rectangle and fold it
8

Again fold the rectangle and now it is 4 layered.
9

Fold the top and bottom edges backwards. Now it looks like a leaf.
10

Now insert bottom edge into centre of the leaf.
11

Insert and pull the edge out
12

Prepare leaves with all dough and deep fry them in oil
13

Prepare sugar syrup with 100 ml sugar and water.
14

Boil it for 5 minutes and add cardamom powder.
15

Now soak the fried leaves in prepared sugar syrup
16

After soaking for 5 minutes arrange them in a plate and garnish them with cherries, tutti fruitti and jeera toffee