India

Soan Papdi

Name: Soan Papdi
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 16 pieces
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 100 g Chickpea flour; 100 g Wheat flour; 250 g Sugar; 150 g Ghee; 1/2 tsp Cardamom; to garnish Pistachios

Flaky, layered Indian sweet

Soan papdi is a flaky, almost thread-like Indian sweet of chickpea and wheat flour, sugar and ghee.

Skilful pulling of the hot sugar creates the characteristic melt-in-the-mouth texture, perfumed with cardamom.

Servings16 pieces

Time50 min

LevelAdvanced

Ingredients

Chickpea flour100 g
Wheat flour100 g
Sugar250 g
Ghee150 g
Cardamom1/2 tsp
Pistachiosto garnish

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Roast both flours golden in ghee.
Cook a firm syrup from sugar and water.
Pull the syrup through the flour mass until threads form.
Press the mass flat and dust with cardamom.
Scatter with pistachios and cut into pieces.

Make it original

Chickpea flour and cardamom for soan papdi are in the Asia Boutique.

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