Shakkar Pare

Shakkar Pare (Or sometimes called Shakkar Pare) are sweet fried crispy snacks. These are served during festivals like holi and social occasions like weddings and birthdays. This is a popular sweet recipe from North India.

If you make this recipe with Jaggery its called Gud Para. To try a salty version of this recipe try our Namak Pare recipe.

Ingredients

For dough

1. Wheat flour – ½ cup
2. Refined flour – ½ cup
3. Clarified butter – ½ cup
4. Sugar (powdered) – 5 tablespoons
5. Fennel seeds (saunf) crushed – ½ teaspoon
6. Water as required

For frying

1. Oil for frying

Method

• In a big bowl add refined and wheat flour, saunf seeds, sugar and clarified butter and rub into flour. This will have a texture like breadcrumbs.

Add a little water at a time (don’t add more water at once. If you add more water at once then the flour will become sticky to handle) and knead into stiff dough.

• Cover with wet muslin cloth and set aside 5 – 10 minutes.

• After 10 minutes, divide the dough into two equal part.
• Lightly dust the rolling board with dry flour.
• Now roll out the dough into half centimeter thick.

• Cut each of the roll out dough into diamond shape or any other shape as per your choice.

• Heat sufficient oil in a deep frying pan.

• Slowly drop Shakkar Pare into the oil and fry them on medium heat till golden brown.

• Turn them carefully to cook the other side as well.

• Take out all fried Shakkar Pare onto an absorbent paper or tissue paper.
• Let the Shakkar Pare cool to room temperature.
• Store them in an air tight container.

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Shakkarpare

Course Snacks

Cuisine North Indian Recipes

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 4 -5

Author FoodFlavor.In

Ingredients

For dough

• Wheat flour – ½ cup
• Refined flour – ½ cup
• Clarified butter – ½ cup
• Sugar powdered – 5 tbsps.
• Fennel seeds saunf crushed – ½ tsp
• Water as required

For frying

• Oil for frying

Instructions

• In a big bowl add refined and wheat flour, saunf seeds, sugar and clarified butter and rub into flour. This will have a texture like breadcrumbs.
• Add a little water at a time (don’t add more water at once. If you add more water at once then the flour will become sticky to handle) and knead into stiff dough.
• Cover with wet muslin cloth and set aside 5 – 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, divide the dough into two equal part.
• Lightly dust the rolling board with dry flour.
• Now roll out the dough into half centimeter thick.
• Cut each of the roll out dough into diamond shape or any other shape as per your choice.
• Heat sufficient oil in a deep frying pan.
• Slowly drop Shakkar Pare into the oil and fry them on medium heat till golden brown.
• Turn them carefully to cook the other side as well.
• Take out all fried Shakkar Pare onto an absorbent paper or tissue paper.
• Let the Shakkar Pare cool to room temperature.
• Store them in an air tight container.