Add semolina, sugar, fennel seeds, whole black pepper and mix.
Start adding water very slowly and keep mixing to make a thick batter of flowing consistency. Rest for 1 hour.
Take a ladle of medium size, fill it with the batter and pour the mixture in hot desi ghee.
Let the puda fry from both the sides. When the border of puda turns brown, it is ready. Likewise keep on making more pude with the entire batter.
Serve hot or cold.
Notes
Even if batter remains for more than an hour, no issues. If you don't require to make more pude but the batter still remains, keep that remaining in refrigerator but finish the whole within 24 hours.
You can fry pude in refined oil too, but there's a huge difference in the taste of pude fried in desi ghee and oil. Ghee fried pude are rich and extraordinary in taste. So use of desi ghee is highly recommended.
The moment you take puda out of ghee, it will be very soft but thereafter it will turn very crispy and crunchy.