Delicious Shankarpali lightly sweeted fried cookies made with flour, semolina, sugar , ghee and cardamom. Excellent snack of its own.
Diwali/Deepavali/ festival of lights are unique among all the festivals, and I loved it so much while growing up. I miss those firecrackers, my mom’s cooking and all that crazy ads on TV and Radio about the sales going on for Deepavali. As this year’s Diwali is falling on a weekday, there is not much celebration except I made Shanakarpali, Mysore pak, Ukkaraiand mixture.
I bought new clothes for my princess and prince, as she is going to school and hubby is working not planned to have elaborate breakfast which is must on Diwali day. As usual, convey my Diwali wishes to dad in India. Our Diwali celebrations are little dampened by the lingering cold in the household.
Diwali day usually started with very early morning bath (usually sesame oil is used in hair and body) followed by wearing new dress and lighting fire crackers and going to temples. Having an elaborate breakfast, with idly (steamed rice cake) and all kind of savories and sweets which mom made for Diwali.
After marriage when I visited Mumbai my hubby’s home, there they are painting the house, making rangoli, decorating house with lights, lilting diyas (small earthen lamps) and doing God Lakshmi Pooja. Of course there are lot of sweets and snacks they call it Faral like Shakarpali, Karanji, Rava ladoo and savories like Chakali, Chiwida etc.
This time for Deepavali/Diwali I planned to make karanji and shankarpali, but due to me being under the weather, I had to stick to my usual Diwali dishes made only shankarpali. These are small cute fried beauties, crisp, but not hard. They remind me of diamond cut cookies from my home State, Kerala. Shankarpali is easy to put together, as it doesn’t require dunking the fried goodies into sugar syrup like diamond cuts or shakar pare of northern India.
You need All-purpose flour, semolina, sugar, baking soda and milk to form the dough. Then cut the dough into slightly thick pieces and fry them in oil until it is crisp. They are delicious and addictive, are not overly sweetened. It is a very good snack while watching a movie or to have with tea or coffee.
Mix all purpose flour, semolina, ghee, baking soda, salt and cardamom together in medium bowl.
In microwave safe bowl heat milk, water and sugar brings to a boil. Add this boiled milk into the flour mix to form smooth dough.
Spread the dough into 20 inch length and 15 inch wide rectangle. Using a pizza cutter cut into strips first and then into 1 inch pieces with ½ inches thick.
Heat oil in thick bottom pan and fry these small pieces until it become golden brown and cooked well.
Drain them into kitchen towel to remove excess oil.
It should crisp but not hard.
Enjoy as much you wish.
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Shankarpali /Sweet fried cookies
Delicious and simple shankarpali is a sweet fried cookies made with flour, sugar, ghee and water.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 2206kcal
Ingredients
- 1 C All purpose flour/Maida
- ¼ Cup Semolina/Rava
- 2 ½ tablespoon Granulated Sugar
- ⅛ cup Water
- ¼ cup Milk
- 1 tablespoon Ghee
- ⅛ teaspoon Baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 2 nos Cardamom
- 4 Cup Canola Oil for frying
Instructions
- Mix all purpose flour, semolina, ghee, baking soda, salt and cardamom together in a medium bowl.
- In a microwave safe bowl heat milk, water and sugar brings to a boil. Add this boiled milk into the flour mix to form smooth dough.
- Spread the dough into 20 inch length and 15 inch wide rectangle. Using a pizza cutter cut into strips first and then into 1 inch long diamond shaped pieces with ½ inch thick.
- Heat oil in thick bottom pan when it reaches hot ( 350F) add pieces of dough fry these small pieces until it become golden brown and cooked well. It takes about 9 minutes to cook one batch.
- Drain them into kitchen towel to remove excess oil.
- It should crisp but not hard.
Notes
If you you can increase the amount of sugar to make it more sweeter.
Nutrition
Calories: 2206kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 229g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 115mg | Potassium: 84mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 25IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 2mg
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
The 21st Century Housewife© says
It's hard being away from the celebrations - I really miss Canadian Thanksgiving here in England, although we celebrate anyway! Happy Diwali to you. It was lovely to hear more about your Diwali traditions. Your Shankarpali sound delicious. I love the idea of a fried cookie and these look wonderful.
Kalyani says
Happy Diwali .... yummy !!!!
Guru Uru says
A very happy Diwali my dear friend - these cookies are ideal 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Amrita Vishal says
Happy Diwali to you too. The shankarpali look too cute.
Rosita Vargas says
Esta receta me encantó se ve muy deliciosa,abrazos y abrazos.
Suja Manoj says
This is so good,crispy and yum,perfect for Diwali
Navaneetham Krishnan says
That is simply tempting. I am too lazy to make the same, just pinch some from mummy dearest. Happy Deepavali to you and your family Swathi.
Renata says
Love your cookies, Swathi! Happy Diwali to you and your family too!
Vimitha Anand says
Happy Diwali dear... Love these yummy cookies
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
that is so yummy!!! Happy Diwali!!
Sowmya
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Veena Theagarajan says
Happy Deepavali Swathi, Nice recipe
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srividhya Ravikumar says
cute looking shankarpali swathi..
Reeni Pisano says
Wishing you a happy and prosperous Deepavali/Diwali Swathi! These cookies are scrumptious little treats! They look so good. Hope you are feeling better!
Shree Kanneppady says
Happy Deepavali swathi.. 🙂
Will try this recipe and let u know the result 🙂
divya says
looks so yummy! Happy Diwali
PrathibhaSreejith says
Perfect n yummy Shankarpali Swathi.
Wishing you and family a very Happy Diwali!!!
Elisabeth says
Swathi, Happy Diwali to you and your sweet family. Love your sweet fried cookies, and would love to try a few:) Enjoy this beautiful holiday; with love!
Gajus kitchen says
That looks perfect and cute.Lovely colour too. Happy Diwali to you and your family.
PT says
happy diwali dear 🙂 like that cute bucket.. well made crispies..
Vidya says
Wishing you and your family a very happy diwali....yummy shankarpali...perfectly made.