Name: Instant Sooji Chum Chums recipe by Swathi Joshnaa Sathish at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: Fine semolina / Sooji 1 cup equals 120 ml; Whole milk 2 cups; Ghee 3 tablespoons; Powdered brown sugar 1 cup; Milk Powder 2 tablespoons; Yellow food colour 2 drops; For Sugar Syrup :; Brown sugar 1 cup; Water 2 cups; Green Cardamom pods 4; Rose water 1 teaspoon; Other Ingredients:; Pistachios chopped 2 tablespoons; Desiccated coconut 2 tablespoons

Ingredients Serving: 10

Fine semolina / Sooji 1 cup equals 120 ml
Whole milk 2 cups
Ghee 3 tablespoons
Powdered brown sugar 1 cup
Milk Powder 2 tablespoons
Yellow food colour 2 drops
For Sugar Syrup :
Brown sugar 1 cup
Water 2 cups
Green Cardamom pods 4
Rose water 1 teaspoon
Other Ingredients:
Pistachios chopped 2 tablespoons
Desiccated coconut 2 tablespoons

Instructions

Boil 2 cups milk in a wide pan .
Add 1 teaspoon ghee when the milk starts boiling . Stir .
Add 5 tablespoons powdered Brown sugar and stir until sugar dissolves completely in milk .
Start adding fine Sooji / semolina gradually to the hot milk while mixing to form a lump free mixture .
Add a tablespoon ghee when milk is drained completely .
Add food colour .
Stir to form a nonsticky single mass dough .
Switch off the flame .
Allow the dough to cool .
Knead the cooled dough. Add 2 tablespoons milk powder and knead again to a smooth roti dough consistency .
Sprinkle powdered sugar and knead again .
Meantime , prepare sugar syrup . Boil sugar syrup for 5 minutes till sugar dissolves and becomes little sticky .
Coming to the dough , grease your palms with ghee .
Take a small portion and shape it into long ovals within your palms .
Likewise shape other ovals and place it on a tray .
Once all done , drop the ovals ( chum chums ) into the boiling sugar syrup .
Allow the chum chums to be in for 2 minutes .
Toss gently and take out the chums chums from the heat after 2 to 3 minutes .
Roll the chum chums on desiccated coconut . This step is optional . Garnish with chopped pistachios .
Serve and relish .

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