Jammu special pugga halwai style
Pugga is a traditional sweet made with evaporated milk aka khoya, sugar and white sesame seeds.
Ingredients
- 500 gram khoya/Mawa
- 300 gram White sesame seeds
- 300 gram sugar
- 100 ml water
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- Raisins as required
- 1/2 cup bura or powdered sugar
Instructions
- Take a heavy bottomed pan and add white sesame seeds in it.
- Roast the seeds on low heat while stirring continuously to prevent them from burning.
- Once they turn very slightly brown, take them out in a wide plate or tray and leave them to cool completely.
- Once cool, grind them to a coarse texture. Keep aside.
- Now add sugar and water in the pan & put the pan on medium to high heat.
- Let sugar dissolve completely and then bring the heat between low to medium.
- In 3-4 minutes, sugar will become thick and frothy. Keep stirring. Watch video attached to this post for better understanding.
- Soon after sugar will begin to dry and at the initial stage of creating crystals.
- Now IMMEDIATELY add khoya to the pan by crumbling.
- Mix very well.
- Let khoya completely melt and simmer for a minute or two. Keep stirring.
- Break the sugar crystals, if there's any.
- Remove the pan from the heat & let khoya sugar mixture turn completely cool.
- Now add coarsely grinded sesame seeds and cardamom powder.
- Give it a good mix.
- Now start shaping the dough and for that take a ball size dough and roll it round using your greased hand.
- Then roll the ball in powdered sugar or bura.
- Gently press the top of the ball with a thumb creating a dent on the top.
- Tick a raisin over the top. Likewise prepare more puggas with the dough.
- Jammu special pugga is ready. Enjoy
Notes
- This recipe can be made with jaggery as well, but traditionally jammu pugga is made with sugar only.
- Over the top, it is only raisin which is tucked. Otherwise you can put any dry fruit of your choice.