Nukti (Sugar Balls)

Ingredients

• two pounds of fine flour of gram
• one pound of ghi
• a quarter ounce of salt
• two and a half lbs. of ghi
• five pounds of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Make a paste of flour, ghi, and salt.

2. 2

   Boil ghi, pour paste into a strainer, and press to form small grains.

3. 3

   Cook in boiling ghi, then mix with boiled sugar to form balls.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 149. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Nukti. (Sugar Balls.) Make a paste of two pounds of fine flour of gram (the flour of the very small white pea will do) , one pound of ghi, and a quarter ounce of salt ; boil in a deep frying- pan two and a half lbs. of ghi ; pour the paste with a cup into a strainer with big holes, and press it with a small pestle so as to get small round grains like peas into the boiling ghi. When cooked, remove them with a skimmer, and drain on a sieve till all the ghi is removed. Continue this process till all the paste is finished. The small grains are called boondi. Boil five pounds of sugar

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