Ingredients

• 150 g (1 cup) - gram flour
• 8 to 10 - almonds
• 3 - chopped dry apricots
• 2 tsp - desiccated coconut
• 1/2 cup - sugar
• 2 cup - water
• 1 tsp - cardamom powder
• 3 tbsp - clarified butter (ghee) or unsalted butter

How to Make Besan-e-sheera

• Boil water with sugar and cardamom powder for 5 minutes to make a solution and keep aside.
• Sieve gram flour and keep aside.
• Heat ghee or butter in a pan (on low flame) and add almonds and chopped apricots, fry for 1 minute and drain on paper towel.
• Now add gram flour to that ghee or butter and roast it on low flame with continuous stirring for 5-10 minutes till it becomes golden in colour.
• Add sugar solution in roasted gram flour and let it boil for 2 minutes till water mixes with gram flour.
• Remove from heat and garnish with fried almonds and apricots. Sprinkle desiccated coconut over the top.
• Serve hot with milk.
• Recipe Courtesy: Cooking With Sapana