I have made an attempt to make a sweet dish called Padar-Peni which my mom made for Diwali. I would love to share my experience. Here is the receipe for the dish.
Ingredients
Maida (All purspose flour)- about 300 gms (enough to make 6 or 7 chapatis)
Ghee-4-5 tbsp
Powdered sugar- about 250 gms
Elaichi-2
Water- suffecient to knead maida into a dough
Salt- very little
Vegetable Oil
Method
Mix Maida with very little salt,water and 2 tbsp of oil. Make a dough as soft as the dough of a chapati. Knead the dough properly. Divide the dough into 6 or 7 parts. Roll each piece of dough by pushing the rolling pin from the center of the dough out to the edges like chapatis. These should be much thinner than a chapati. Keep the first indiviual cake make aside. Similarly roll the second one with the rolling pin. Brush the first cake with little ghee(5-6 drops), sprinkle some maida flour and spread it evenly. Put the second cake on the first one so that it clings to the first one without allowing any air gaps. Similary put the 7 cakes one upon the other using ghee as a gelling agent.
Now roll them together in tightly such it looks like a pipe. Cut the pipe into small pieces. Press them indiviually into a small circle. This is how it looks when cut and pressed into a small circle.
Roll each small piece into the size of a puri. Fry this in a kadai of vegetable oil. This will not puff up as its got layers.
Powder sugar along with 2 elaichis in the mixie. Prinkle this powdered sugar on each of the small puri as soon as it is removed from the kadai after frying. The powdered sugare clings to it. This is how the end produch looks :). 25-30 pieces can be made
