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How to make boora or tagar at home

How to make boora or tagar at home

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This post is about how to make boora or tagar at home. This is a sugar powdered by cooking and is being used by professionals (Halwai) to make ladoo or peda.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Sweets
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 Cup

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 200 ml

  • 3 cup sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tbsp milk optional
  • 1 tbsp desi ghee

Instructions
 

  • Add sugar and water in a pan. Better choose non stick pan.
  • Put the pan on heat on medium to high temperature.
  • Let sugar dissolve completely and then bring the heat between low to medium.
  • If you find that the liquid/sugar syrup is not clean and clear, add milk in it.
  • All the scum/impurities of syrup will be seen collecting on the sides of pan. The scum looks like whitish foarmy substance.
  • Collect all the scum and discard.
  • In case your syrup is already clean, then skip this step of adding milk and collecting scum.
  • Now add desi ghee in the syrup once sugar is completely dissolved and scum removed.
  • Keep stirring and now afterwards, you have to keep on stirring continuously.
  • In 5 to 6 minutes, syrup will become thick and sugar will start slightly drying and sticking on the sides of the pan.
  • Immediately remove the pan from the heat but don't stop stirring. Time and again scrapping the sides of the pan too is very important otherwise sugar will stick there and turns hard.
  • Keep stirring and you will not slowly slowly sugar is turning dry. But don't stop stirring.
  • Also break the lumps formed.
  • Sugar needs to be keep stirring unless it turns cool completely.
  • Once cool, you are done now. Bura is finally ready.

Notes

  1. Add milk and remove scums only and only if sugar syrup is not clean. Otherwise skip this step.
  2. Adjust the heat as per the situation. Maximum heat in the beginning is fine when liquid content is high. But once liquid begins to evaporate, high heat may burn the sugar.
  3. Remove the pan from heat immediately when sugar syrup begins to turn thick and slightly dry from the edges of pan.
  4. You need to stir the syrup occasionally in the beginning when there is water but once syrup starts thickning, DON'T STOP STIRRING. Even if your hands become tired, don't stop and stir continuously.
Keyword boora, bura, tagar