How to make sweet pastry-DILPASAND
Friends,
You might have heard of a very adorable sweet (baked snack)-DILPASAND.
It is also called DILKHUSH.
You can try this CHRISTMAS.
This is actually a puffed pastry, stuffed with lots of Dry fruits, tutti fruity, sugar, and coconut.
The outer covering of this snack is a medium thick and flaky covering of All-purpose flour and salt. Baking powder and ghee. (fat)
This is so such a filling snack, that it satisfies your hunger, by eating a small piece, and is also healthy as you eat lots of dry fruits with it
This snack is made in almost all bakeries and is an all-time favorite of children and adults.
Making this wonderful, and delicious sweet stuffed pastry is very easy and can be made within 45 Mts.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED FOR MAKING DILPASAND
For outer covering: (dough)
- All-purpose flour (maida)-1 cup
- salt-1/8 spoon
- Baking powder1/2 teaspoon
- Ghee-2 teaspoons
- Water to knead the dough-1/4 cup
method of kneading the dough for DILPASAND
Table of Contents
- Take a plate or mixing bowl to knead the dough.
- Take a cup of flour, salt, baking soda, and ghee.
- Now combine all of them to mix the ghee with the flour nicely.
- Take little mixed flour and try to press in between your palm and fingers like a fist.
- If the flour remains in shape and does not break, the ghee you have used is adequate, otherwise, you have to add a little more, this process is to make the final snack crispy and flaky.
- Now add water, a little at a time, and knead a soft dough.
- Cover the dough and keep it for 10 mts to rest.
Meanwhile, make the stuff ready
INGREDIENTS FOR THE STUFFING OF YUMMY DILPASAND
- Sugar-1/2 cup
- Desiccated coconut-1/2 cup
- Ghee-2 teaspoons
- Cardamom powder-1 teaspoon
- Almonds-20 numbers
- Cashews-10-12 in numbers
- Walnuts-few pieces
- Raisins-1 tablespoon
- Tutty -fruity-3 tablespoons (mixed colors)
METHOD OF MAKING THE STUFF FOR DILPASAND
- Grind the sugar to a fine powder.
- Powder the cardamoms, after removing the outer covering.
- Chop Almonds, Cashews. and walnuts.
- Keep other ingredients ready.
- Take a mixing bowl.
- Add all the ingredients to it.
- Combine all of them with a spoon or fork.
- Finally, add ghee and mix.
- The stuff is ready.
ROLLING THE DOUGH AND GIVING DILPASAND SHAPE
- To roll the dough, knead once more and divide it into two portions.
- One should be small and the other big.
- Take one (small) portion, and roll with the help of dry flour.
- Roll it about a 7-8 inch diameter circle.
- Apply some ghee on it and sprinkle dry flour on it.
- Now roll from one side to make a long log-like structure.
- Turn it from one end making a circle, and lock in the center as shown.
- Once again roll it to a medium-thin chapati.
Keep aside.
DO THE SAME PROCEDURE WITH THE OTHER PORTION.
- But this will be bigger than the previous one.
- Spread it on the rolling board.
- Take the stuffing and put it in the center of this big chapati. (all the sides, 1 inch left)
- Cover the stuff with the small chapati, and apply water on all the sides, securing the stuff nicely.
- Now lift the outer sides of the big chapati, and fold it making gathers. (as shown)
- Make a criss-cross cut in the center to avoid puffing in excess.
- DILPASAND is ready to go for baking.
BAKING THE SNACK -DILPASAND
- For baking DILPASAND, PREHEAT THE OTG AT 200 DEGREE.
- Now keep the rolled DILPASAND, on greased butter paper.
- Smear ghee on top of the DILPASAND, before keeping it in the OTG.
- Bake for 30 to 35 mts,(as needed)
- When you get good color, turn it upside down and bake for 5 more mts.
- After removing it from the oven, smear the ghee with a brush, to avoid dryness.
NOTE:-COOL NICELY BEFORE CUTTING TO AVOID BREAKAGE AND TO CUT EASILY IN PROPER SHAPE,
A very delicious, healthy, homemade, yummy, crunchy, and flaky dilpasand or dilkhush is ready to relish, cut with a pizza cutter into 6 pieces and serve.
