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Serves 4

The quintessential Rajasthani sweet which is prepared on special occasions and festivals. Here's the easiest recipe for you to try at home!

Recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

• ½ cup ghee + for deep frying
• 5-6 ice cubes
• 2½ cups refined flour (maida)
• 1 tbsp gram flour (besan)
• 2 tbsps lemon juice
• Ready-made sugar syrup as required
• Ready-made rabdi as required
• Slivered almonds for garnish
• Blanched and slivered pistachios for garnish
• Dried rose petals for garnish
• Silver varq for garnish

Method

1. Take ghee in a large bowl, add ice cubes and mix with your palms till the ice melts. Add refined flour, gram flour and 4½ cups water little by little, mixing after every addition till a smooth and thin batter is formed.
2. Add lemon juice and mix well.
3. Heat sufficient ghee in a small deep pan, place a small ring mould in the centre, drop batter in a thin stream in the centre, fry for a few seconds and start dropping the batter again in the same way. Using a skewer, make a hole in the centre and repeat the same process for 10-12 more times, making a hole in the centre after every addition.
4. Occasionally add hot ghee on top of the ghevar from the other pan. Drain on a cooling rack.
5. To serve, drizzle sugar syrup on ghevar, pour rabdi, garnish with almonds, pistachios, dried rose petals and silver varq.