500 gms maida(refined flour)
250 gms rava (semolina)
1½ cup milk
1 cup dalda or ghee
3 ts carom seed (Ajwain /ova)
3 ts cumin (jeera)
1 tbsp crushed black pepper
Salt as Per taste
200 ml Oil(around 3 cups)
How to make the recipe?
Sift flour and salt. Add cumin seed, carom seed, pepper powder and salt. Mix all nicely.
Take a small Pan heat the Dalda and keep aside. Alternatively you could microwave the dalda. Now make small well in the flour add warm dalda.
Rub the flour with your finger and palm.
It will appear like bread crumbs.
Start kneading to form a soft and smooth dough. Keep kneading the dough for about 15 to 20 mins with lot of energy and apply pressure to it.
Keep the dough aside covered with a malmal(linen) cloth for about 10 to 15 mins. Its time now to make big balls out of the dough and roll them with the chapati roller. Roll them into round shape similar to a roti but keep the width little thick than chapatis .
Take a knife and cut them into Square or Diamond Shapes.
Heat oil in a deep vessel once the oil is hot add the shankarpali to it ensuring gas is on low flame. Once shankarpali are nice golden brown remove them.
Repeat the same procedure with the remaining balls.
Allow them to cool and store them into an airtight box Or container.
Serve Spicy Shankarpali on a platter with decorate it with Diyas on occasion of Diwali.