Panjiri Recipe » Dassana’s Veg Recipes

Panjiri recipe with step-by-step pics. Panjiri is a standard Punjabi candy made with entire wheat flour, powdered sugar and ghee. It’s principally made throughout winters.

The recipe I’m sharing right here at this time is a household recipe and probably the most favourite candy at dwelling. There are a lot of variations of constructing panjiri and the one which I’m sharing at this time has solely entire wheat flour in it.

To make panjiri entire wheat flour is roasted in ghee after which powdered sugar is added to this combine. This dry candy tastes good and is common in Punjabi houses and is often made through the winters.

Ideas for making Panjiri Recipe

• Typically we add khand or khandsari, which is desi uncooked sugar to it. You may as well add jaggery powder or white sugar powder or natural unrefined cane sugar if you don’t get desi khand. Or you may grind the common sugar after which add it.
• We often make this entire wheat panjiri for the children within the household. There’s a variation on this recipe too, the place you possibly can use 2:1 proportion of entire wheat flour and sooji (rava) respectively.
• I do add dry fruits in panjiri however including dry fruits is non-compulsory and you’ll skip it altogether. You might additionally add your alternative of dry fruits.
• You might additionally add some desiccated coconut (nariyal ka bura) within the recipe. Roast the coconut individually after which add to the roasted entire wheat flour.

We additionally add gond (edible gum) in panjiri, however this variation we make in winters since gond is warming and hearty.

Panjiri with gond is sweet as a postpartum meals too. Even this entire wheat panjiri might be had as put up partum meals. However simply add some extra dry fruits than what’s talked about within the recipe.

Serve this panjiri candy anytime simply as it’s or with some heat milk. Among the best a part of this dish is that It stays good for a lot of weeks at room temperature. So you may simply make a giant batch and have it for a lot of weeks.

The recipe might be doubled or tripled however the cooking time will improve. Panjiri might be had any time of the day when you’re having a candy craving.

Step-by-Step Information

The best way to make Panjiri Recipe

1. First powder ½ cup sugar in a dry grinder and hold apart. I’ve used natural unrefined cane sugar. You may as well use khand or khandsari which is a desi uncooked sugar.

2. Take 1 cup entire wheat flour in a kadai or a thick bottomed broad pan.

3. Hold the pan on a low flame or sim and start to roast the entire wheat flour.

4. You must stir usually whereas roasting the flour so that there’s even roasting and browning.

5. Roast until the colour modifications and also you get nutty aroma from the entire wheat flour. About 9 to 12 minutes on a low flame.

6. Then add 4 tablespoons of ghee within the flour.

7. Stir and blend very nicely.

8. Add 15 to 18 cashews. If including almonds then you may roast them individually in a pan after which add.

9. Carry on stirring and roasting the panjiri combination for five to six minutes extra. Do examine the style of the entire wheat flour and it ought to really feel cooked. There shouldn’t even be a slight rawness within the flour.

Making panjiri

10. Change off the flame. Hold the pan down and add powdered sugar in components.

11. Combine very nicely.

12. Add the remaining quantity of powdered sugar.

13. Combine the sugar very nicely.

14.  Then add 15 to 18 raisins.

15.  And blend once more and enable the panjiri to chill.

16. Then retailer in an hermetic jar and Serve panjiri plain or with some heat milk.

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This Panjiri Recipe put up from the archives first printed in June 2015 has been up to date and republished on January 2023.