When winter is here, my home is blessed with the smell of different roasted flour.
A traditional sweet pinnis specially made in the winter season in many northern parts of India or north Indian family homes.
These pinnis are full of nutrients and super tasty. Incorporating suji, flax-seed, almond meal in your diet during winters will keep your body warm and high immunity.
So, try this homemade easy to follow step by step instructions to make pinni at home.
P.s you must have strong arms to roast the flour nicely.
Flaxseed
This is the brown coloured crop. It comes in flour and seed form(hard covering). These are packed full of healthy benefits. This is the superfood to be consumed in winter.
Super-food Why?
Flax-seed contains omega 3 fatty acid, lignans, fibre and many other ingredients.
Ingredients to make Pinnis
- 3/4 cups Flaxseed Flour
- 1 cup Whole wheat Flour(of your choice)
- 1/2 cup Semolina Flour
- 3/4 cup Almond Flour
- 1/2 cup Coconut Flour
- 60 gms (1/2 cup) Ghee/ Butter
- 3/4 cup Sugar / Jaggery 250 gms or to taste.
- Optional( Dry fruits)
- 1/4 cup milk or as needed for binding the mixture
Steps
1) Take a pan or wok. Heat the pan and pour ghee into it. I used 1/2cup of ghee.
2) While the ghee melts in another pan, mix the flour:- Flaxseed flour, whole wheat flour, semolina flour, almond flour, coconut flour.
3) After the ghee is melted nicely, make the gas to low flame and pour the flour mixture in wok and roasted them for 1 hour until it turns brown and starts to leave its fragrance.
4) You should continuously stir the mixture otherwise the flour will get burned and won't taste good. Arm exercise is needed in this to make yummy pinnis.
5) After the flour started to leave its fragrance switch the gas off and remove the wok from the stove and keep it aside.
6) Keep aside sugar in 3/4 cup or if you are using jaggery melt it with water to have a smooth texture(don't use milk to bind if you are using jaggery).
7) For Jaggery Syrup:- Put jaggery (250 gms.) in the water (1 1/4 cup) in a pan. Stir the mixture till the jaggery dissolves completely into the water. Test the syrup by putting it between your forefinger and thumb. If the syrup leaves a string while parting the two, then it means the syrup is ready. Turn off the flame.
8)When the mixture of flour is half cooled down you can put the sugar or jaggery syrup to make balls. Remember if you are using brown or white sugar you have to add milk to make them into the ball. ( add milk little by little and start binding the mixture in small balls.)
9) Take out a small portion of the mixture equal to the size of a lemon. Prepare laddoo from the whole mixture giving it a round shape.
10) Pinnis are ready. Store the pinni in an air-tight container, that can be consumed for over one month. Eat it every day along with tea.
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