ALMOND & SESAME PINNI
What you need
- Wheat flour: 2 cup
- Semolina: 2½ tbsp
- Roasted almond slivers: ¼ cup
- Roasted white sesame powder: ¼ cup
- Pure ghee: ¾ cup
- Gram flour (besan): 1½ tbsp
- Sugar: 1 cup
- Water: ½ cup
- Green cardamom powder: ½ tsp
- Roasted white sesame: 1 tbsp
- Roasted whole almonds: 3 tbsp
Method
- Heat ghee in a pan, add semolina and wheat flour to it. Roast the mixture till a golden colour is achieved.
- Mix the sugar and water in a pan, and put it over low heat. Cook till single string sugar syrup is formed.
- Mix the sugar syrup with the wheat flour mixture. Add the green cardamom powder.
- Cook the mixture till it becomes a little dry. Add the roasted almond flakes and ground white sesames to the mixture and mix well.
- Allow the mixture to cool. Divide the mixture into equal parts and shape it into rounds.
- Cut the roasted almond into halves and place it over the pinnis and roll the pinnis gently in roasted white sesame.
Courtesy: Chef Manish Mehrotra.