Kasaar or Churi Prasad is a very traditional prasad recipe made during auspicious occasions like Monday fasts and Satyanarayan pooja to name some. This prasad sweet is made with whole wheat flour, clarified butter and dry nuts.
INGREDIENTS:
Whole wheat flour/ Atta- 2 cups
Ghee- 3/4th cup
Sugar- 1.5- 2 cups (according to your taste)
Almonds- 10-12
Cashews- 10-12
Melon seeds- 1 tablespoon
Pista slivers- 1 tablespoon
Green cardamom- 5-6
DIRECTIONS:
Start by roasting the flour. For that put ghee in thick bottomed pan or kadai.
Add in the flour. Mix it well. Roast the flour on low flame. Keep stirring occasionally and keep breaking the lumps.
Meanwhile, chop almonds and cashews.
Deseed the cardamoms and coarsely ground the seeds.
After about 10 minutes the flour turns to light brown color and you get nutty aroma from the flour. Add in chopped almonds, cashews and melon seeds. Add in grounded cardamom seeds too.
This way they will also be roasted along with the flour. You don’t have to roast them separately.
Keep roasting and stirring everything well till the flour turns to brown color. It will take about 10 to 12 minutes.
After that turn off the flame and keep the kadai or pan down.
Let the mixture come to room temperature.
Then add the sugar. Mix well.
( The sugar that I am using is of fine variety, the sugar granules are very small. If you are using normal granulated sugar, give it a pulse in mixer to make the granules small).
After that add in pista slivers and mix again.
Your Prasad is ready for bhog. You can store it in an air tight container.
Have a divine and blessed day!!