Shankar Pade (Sweet Rectangular Crisps)

Shankar Pade (Sweet Rectangular Crisps) are sweet crisps having rectangular shapes made of flour, sugar, and ghee as the main ingredients. The ghee can be substituted by butter if unavailable. I usually make these sweets during Christmas by adding nice Christmassy colors of pink and green.

However, these sweets can be eaten as a snack anytime of the year. Most importantly you can store them in an airtight containers and consume whenever you feel like it, maybe while watching movies or some television series, munching these crisps would be a good time pass.

Ingredients

1 Cup All Purpose Flour or Maida
1/2 Cup Wheat Flour
1/2 Cup Sugar (Powdered)
A pinch of salt
2 Tbsps Ghee
2 Tbsps Rava or Semolina
1/2 Cup Water / Milk or as required
1/4 Tsp Baking Soda or Baking Powder
Edible Color (Pink and Green) 2 drops each
Oil for Deep Frying

Servings / Time

370 gms / 40 Minutes

Preparation

1. Mix all the above ingredients and knead to form a nice soft dough.

Keep the dough aside for an hour covered.

2. After an hour, separate the dough into 3 part, keep one part of the dough unchanged, add 2 drops each of green and pink edible colors separately to each part of the dough. Knead well such that the color is evenly spread across each part of the dough.

3. Now take one part of the dough and roll it out using a rolling pin. Roll it out into a nice thin sheet. Then take a cutter or a knife cut strips vertically and horizontally to form small rectangles of the rolled out sheets.

4. Follow the above step for the remaining two parts of the dough.

5. Place these rectangles on a newspaper or a tray dusted with flour.

6. Once these rectangles are ready, heat oil in a pan for deep frying.

Once the oil is hot add these rectangles, fry on a low to medium flame or else these rectangles may burn.

7. Once these rectangles are golden brown, add them to a tray with paper towel to absorb excess oil. Then transfer to another tray and allow cooling.

8. Once cooled, add these rectangles to an airtight container.

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