Bajra Pua Recipe
To keep the body warm in winter, one must eat millet flour. Millet has a hot nature. That’s why people in North India eat it with great enthusiasm in winter. In winter, we prepare millet roti, millet khichdi, millet malida and eat parathas made from millet flour. But on the days of Sakat and Sankranti, special millet puas are made. Jaggery and sesame are important on these festivals, so Pua is made by mixing jaggery and sesame in millet flour. Some people also call them Bajra Tikki or Bajra Tikki. In appearance, they are like desi millet cookies. You must prepare and eat millet pua on the day of Sakat or Sankranti. Take a quick note of the recipe of Bajra Pua.
Bajra Pua Recipe
First step- First of all, take millet flour and sift it. You can take 1 or 2 cups of flour as per your need. Now we have to take enough jaggery to make the pua sweet. You take jaggery as per your convenience. Break the jaggery into fine pieces and soak it by adding very little hot water. Keep in mind not to add too much water in jaggery because pua becomes hard like puri.
Second step- Now take some white sesame seeds to add to the pua and fry them for some time in a pan. If you wish, mix the sesame seeds as is or grind them lightly. Now mix sesame seeds with millet flour. We are using sesame seeds without grinding them. To enhance the taste, also add some coconut powder i.e. grated dry coconut.
Third step- Now add jaggery solution little by little to the millet flour and knead a soft dough. You have to prepare puri like dough by kneading it. Take care not to make the dough too thin. Leave the pua dough to set for 5 minutes. After this, break the dough into pieces equal to the size of a roti and flatten the pua with your palm. Pua has to be made in round tikki like shape. But keep in mind that it should not be too thick from the middle.
Fourth step- Now heat oil or ghee in a pan. Slowly add 2-3 Pua in it and cook on medium flame till it turns brown. Bake all the puas in the same manner and keep taking them out. While baking pua, one has to keep in mind the gas. If you cook on high gas then the food will appear raw from inside. If baked on very low flame, the pua will become very hard. Therefore, prepare pua by baking it on medium flame only.
Bajra Pua is ready. You eat them on Sakat Chauth or Sankranti. Bajra Pua is a good recipe for those who love sweets in winters. You can easily eat these for 15 days. Bajra Pua tastes very tasty to eat. Children also like this pua very much. You can make these and take them while travelling.
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