Bhatia Fusion · New dishes from leftovers
Phulka Shahi Ladoo
Sweet balls made from leftover phulka
A mitho (sweet), rich ladoo: chopped phulka is fried in ghee with cardamom, cooked with mawa and sugar and cashews and raisins, cooled, blitzed in a mixer and rolled into balls dressed with chopped almonds and edible silver leaf. A modern fusion sweet, served with lunch or dinner.
Ingredients
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Method
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Cut the phulkas into small pieces and set them aside.
Heat the ghee in a kadai (deep frying pan) and add the cardamom.
Add the phulka pieces and stir constantly for .
Add the mawa and sugar and keep stirring over a low flame.
Add the cashews and raisins and cook until the sugar and mawa are well blended into the mixture.
Take the pan off the heat and let the mixture cool.
Blend the mixture in a mixer until it is evenly combined.
Roll small portions between your palms into small balls (ladoos).
Garnish with chopped almonds and the edible silver leaf.
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Serve with
A sweet to serve with lunch or dinner.
Nutrition
EstimatedPer ladoo
250 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbohydrate
- 11 g
- Fat
- 21 g
We estimate about 12 ladoos from the weight of the dish.
Whole recipe
2,950 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbohydrate
- 136 g
- Fat
- 257 g
Everything in the ingredients list, plus the oil soaked up in frying.
These are estimates, worked out from the amounts in the recipe and typical values for each ingredient. Portion sizes and the exact amount of oil, ghee or sugar can change them a lot. For deep-fried food we count the oil the food soaks up, not the whole pan of oil. How we estimate
Where this recipe comes from
Recipe from Panja Khada by Bharat and Deepa Chachara, shared by Namrata Daswani and Jyoti Gajaria.
See the original recipe and photos