Chandrakala Recipe (Half Moon Shaped Sweet filled with Khoya and Nuts) – Sweets for Diwali

This one is very same as Suryakala which I will post now...But the shape varies...So I hope you will check that recipe too..

Chandrakala is a half moon shaped sweet which is really really tasty one..

This recipe goes to Blogging Marathan-Day 1 for the theme “Indian Festival Food with Step by Step pictures”..

I will continue sharing my diwali stories and many more sweets in my coming post..So off you go for the step by step recipe with pictures...

Ingrediants:

Sugar-250 gms

Oil for deep frying

For Dough:

All Purpose Flour / Maida-300 gms

Ghee-2 tblspn

Salt to taste

Baking Soda-1 tsp

Water as needed

For Filling:

Sweetened Khoya / Pal Kova-1 cup

Nuts-2 tblspn chopped(I used badam and cashews)

Sultanas / Raisans / Kishmish-2 tblspn chopped

Cardamom powder / Yelakai podi-1 tsp

Method:

Take flour,salt,baking soda and ghee in amixing bowl and mix together..

Slowly add in water and make it into a dough(fairly soft)..Knead this dough for 5 mins so that it gets soft and manageable..Apply some ghee over the top and knead it once..

Cover this with a damp cloth and let it rest for 30 mins.

Meanwhile make the filling by mixing sweetened khoya, nuts, kishmish and cardamom together..Set this aside for a moment.

Now start making the sweet...Take the dough out and divide into equal portions depending on how big you want your sweet to be..

For making Chandrakala...Take one dough ball and roll into thin puri..Now take that circle and put some khoya filling in one side..

Apply some water around the edges....Now fold it in half..

Now from one end start folding in a angle and finish it to the end..(Check images for detail).

Do exactly this to all of your dough..

Now make sugar syrup by taking sugar in a kadai and cover it with water..Bring this to boil and let it boil till it reaches one string consistency..

(ie) if you take the sugar syrup in a spoon and drop it..The last drop which falls from the spoon will form and string..

While you start making your sugar syrup..Alternatively bring oil for deep frying..so that as soon as you are done frying your chandrakala you can dip it in the sugar syrup..

Now fry your chandrakala on a low flame till it gets golden and crispy..It will take around 10-15 minutes.

Now dip this chandrakalas in hot sugar syrup and take it in a cooling rack..Store it in air tight container..

Enjoy your Diwali with these dazzling sweets..

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants for dough

put every stuffs in your mixing bowl

mix together

gradually add in water

make it into a soft dough

apply some ghee on top

knead for few minutes

cover it with a damp cloth

Take all your ingrediants for filling

Put everthing in a bowl

mix together

take the dough out and make into log

cut into equal portions

take one dough and roll into thin circle

put some khoya mixture on one side

fold in half

start shaping

fold around the edges...

All done

make sugar syrup by taking sugar in a kadai

pour in water

bring this to boil

let it boil till it reaches one string consistency

can you see the string forming

now fry the chandrakalas

till golden

dip this in sugar syrup